By David Stillman | Executive Director PPAF, Project Leader
Dear Friends and Supporters,
We are happy to tell you about the progress made in the project "Tracking clean cookstoves and fuel in Haiti" from June through August 2018. Please also see the attached photos and documents for illustration of this, and the many pictures we have posted in the Gallery section of our website.
The student team for biogas and solar cooking (Comite Biogaz et Recho Soley), sponsored by the Vice-Rector at the Universite Notre Dame d'Haiti in Hinche (UNDH-H), organized a very successful Science Day on June 2, as mentioned in our 3rd Report. With resources from your donations PPAF covered a portion of the costs at the university itself and travel by one of our colleagues to be an international guest speaker. The event attracted some 400 attendees, including local political and religious leaders, students from many nearby schools and members of the community.
The university center, whose acronym UDERS translates as Diocesan Unit for Education, Research and Service, is proving to be a fertile location for advances in biogas and solar cooking. The Vice Rector and the student team, in which some members are now recent graduates, are eager to develop a hub for teaching about, making and selling this equipment. PPAF and several cooperating organizations are engaged in ways to help make this happen.
In July we focused on two events in New York. One was a fundraising evening benefit for Haiti, with 75 persons attending, and held with generous support from our friends at Resource Furniture. This provided opportunity for representatives of PPAF, Solavore LLC, Solar CITIES Biogas and Solar Cookers International (SCI) to describe their work in general and together in Haiti.
The other main event was an exhibit held jointly with SCI at the United Nations during its HighLevel Political Forum on Sustainable Development. During a week and a half representatives of the two organizations, plus friends from Solavore/ KDCK and from Solar Education Project were able to demonstrate several types of solar cookers and discuss current work with attendees at this major conference. Ours was one of the most visited and most lively displays there.
August saw two significant actions as well. One was the opportunity to make a joint presentation, with the Haiti Adolescent Girls Network (HAGN), at a second major conference at the United Nations. Our presentation "Supporting brighter futures for girls in Haiti" was in a panel on girls' education at the annual Non-Governmental Organizations conference hosted by the UN Department of Public Information. Fifty persons attended that session, which drew considerable interaction, including comments from the SCI Technical Director/Representative to the UN.
The other significant activity is PPAF participation in the refinement and future of a project proposal being developed at UNDH-H for a course on solar and biogas cooking and related entrepreneurship. Colleagues from several organizations, but especially Solavore, Solar CITIES Biogas, SCI and Solar Education Project, are working with the Vice Rector to develop the document and its annexes (course syllabus etc.). The effort is a combination of time, talent and initial funding in preparation for possible consideration by an international funding source operating in Haiti.
Dear friends -- your donations, in keeping with the aims outlined in the PPAF project for Global Giving, are making this possible. Thank you for your continued support!
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