GGH’s mission is to provide primary school education and environmental sustainability education through their public forums and community -based projects in under-served communities of Haiti. They encourage the use of local renewable energy particularly solar applications, through education, micro-finance and technology donations for community infrastructure. GGH works closely with community leaders and local volunteers and in 2010, they started a reforestation project where they plan to have more than 300,000 trees over the next 5 years. For volunteerism, click here. For their blog, click here. Projects location: La Gonave, Anse A Galets, Petion-Ville Focus areas: Education programs, Habitat restoration, Community center Contact: Founded in 1991, this non-profit organization started by a group of Haitians and Americans wanting to answer a call by the late Jacques Cousteau’s video titled “Haiti Water of Sorrow”, to save Haiti from ecological and environmental peril. Located in Miami, Florida, the organization served as an umbrella organization by creating community partnerships in 10 different areas of the island of Haiti and formed partnerships with some schools in South Florida for environmental training workshops as well as pollution prevention, solar technology and water conversation; and organized several activities such as tree planting, neighborhood beautification projects and beach clean-ups. Click here to get access to their online blog talk radio. Contact: A not-for profit organization that facilitates solar projects in developing countries. The organization provides complete solar electric systems and reliable power to homes, villages, and organizations in developing countries and those affected by natural disaster. Their primary focus is working with orphanages in Haiti. Solar 4 Hope has offices located in Albuquerque, New Mexico and Tampa, Florida.
One of their projects in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, involves working on an orphanage facility for the “Reach Out To Haiti” organization, the Ruuska Village , by installing 10kw Off-Grid system so that the village becomes 100% self sufficient for electricity. Contact: Started in January 2008, this non-profit organization is committed to provide people in rural areas with renewable energy resources such as solar electrification, solar water filtration and solar cookers. Their work expands in health clinics, schools and orphanages. To learn more on how their resources can make a difference in less developed countries, click here.
From Haiti to Liberia, Solar Liberty is working to find creative solutions for a better living for the people in less developed nations. Click here for a listing of their current projects. Some of the projects they are working in Haiti are Solar Electrification for a Partners in Health Clinic located in Hinche, Solar Cookers in Port-au-Prince as a result of the earthquake, Solar Electrification system for the Notre Dame De Lourdes Foyer Orphanage in Port-au-Prince and for the Community Kitchen project and for the Relocation of Tent City in Haiti.
Contact:Green Haiti
Greater Good Haiti (GGH)
Email: Visit their contact page Operation Green Leaves
Nadine Patrice
Email:nadinecpatrice44@gmail.com or visit their contact page
Solar 4 Hope
U.S. Phone: 1-800-261-4611
E-mail: info@solar4hope.org or visit their contact page.
Solar Liberty Foundation
Solar Liberty Foundation
6500 Sheridan Dr.,
Suite 120
Williamsville, NY 14221
Phone: 716 -568- 8865
or visit their contact page.
Source: Sacramento Solar Blog & Green Journal, Cliff, December 13, 2010 Article underlines the hardships that the people of Haiti encountered since the earthquake. Dan Schnitzer, co-founder and executive director of EarthSpark International has donated more than 5,500 portable solar lanterns to women and families since the earthquake and took several trips to Haiti before the quakes. The article went in depth in discussing the findings of Dan Schmitzer’s surveys and how Haiti can benefit from solar energy. Portable solar and solar generators will be playing an important role in the country’s recovery since diesel is difficult and expensive to come by. Read more. Source: Clean Energy Authority.com Dec 9, 2010 Even before a magnitude 7M earthquake demolished Haiti’s infrastructure, only 12.5 percent of the country’s population was connected to the power grid. After the quake, diesel fuel became even more difficult to get and more expensive. The generators that ran the country’s power supply fizzled out as Haiti waited in the dark for help. Almost a year after the quake, which rattled the nation on January 12, 2010 solar is shining a light at the end of the tunnel. Organizations have donated thousands and thousands of solar LED lights ranging from individual hand-held solar lanterns to residential lighting systems, streetlights and security lights, and on to major solar installations in schools and clinics. Other non-profit organizations have shipped solar cookers to Haiti so women can cook meals without using polluting coal or wood stoves inside their homes. Companies have also shipped several solar water purifiers to Haiti, an increasingly important tool in light of the country’s recent cholera outbreaks. Read more.
Source: Clean Energy Authority.com Nov 24, 2010 Clean Currents sells wind power through the grid in those eastern states that allow energy companies to compete for utility business. The renewable energy company based in Rockville, M.D. sells wind power through the grid in those eastern states that allow energy companies to compete for utility business and it has existed since 2005. Solar cookers are cheap, simple, and easy to maintain. By harnessing the abundant power of the sun, solar cookers provide a measure of independence to those who use them—and they decrease a user's reliance upon traditional sources of cooking fuel like charcoal, which is costly and very polluting," Clean Currents president Gary Skulnik was quoted in a press release. Clean Currents giving program launched Nov. 23 and will go through Jan. 12, the one-year anniversary of the tragic earthquake that left the island nation devastated. Read more.
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