INDEPCO’s operations rely heavily on their own productive, operational and administrative infrastructure to provide services and support to their “members” (small and micro garment makers).  Most of INDEPCO’s infrastructure was heavily damaged in the earthquake. One building was completely destroyed (including machines) and the second even though it did not collapsed, it cannot be used anymore unless rebuilt. This situation left INDPECO and its members in a very difficult situation in terms of productivity, security, communications and operations.  The items included in the budget request are urgently needed to bring INDEPCO back to a satisfactory level of operations and to continue to produce and meet market orders, thus generating income for their members, which they need to survive.  In addition to getting set up again in another safe and proper building that is adapted to their specific needs, INDEPCO needs to reestablish their communications capacity, and for this need internet connections, computers, printers and photocopier as requested.  They also need consulting support for working with their members whose production  has been severely disrupted after the earthquake, and in general management support for moving out of a crisis situation back to more normal operations. Currently after the earthquake, INDEPCO is working with 50 workshops with 7-8 employees per workshop. They are pursuing several possible local and international contracts at this time (UNICEF and others) and if they can get their production back on track, they could potentially work with up to 400 workshops of 10 people each, thus multiplying employment tenfold (from 400 to 4,000).