PGI Haiti Handout 3-10-10

Project Gaia & Haiti
Emergency Energy Relief &
Long Term Development
To provide ethanol fuel and CleanCook
stoves to Haitian families for immediate
cooking needs and to revive the local
ethanol industry by developing a market
for household cooking fuel.
Why Haiti? Why now? Why stoves?

• Haiti is more than 98% deforested. • Haiti is ideally suited to produce ethanol: mills
• More than 70% of people rely on charcoal & distilleries are already in place.
or firewood to cook. The sustainable supply • One million tons of sugar cane (down from 3
of these fuels is in doubt. million in 1987) are produced annually to
• Since the earthquake, families must spend support the start‐up of a cooking fuel industry.
more than 40% of their income on charcoal. • Ethanol is cheaper than the alternatives: LPG,
• The price of all fuels has increased drama‐ kerosene and charcoal. It is renewable.
tically since the earthquake. More fuel • Ethanol is safe and clean. Families value a
options are needed. modern, convenient and powerful stove.
Help for Haiti CHECKLIST:

This stove operates at
9 Food (rice) 1.5 kW burner power
with turn‐down to 1/5.
9 Water
Performs like an LPG
9 Shelter (tents) stove but without
pressure. Safest stove
9 Pots, pans, utensils in market. High
efficiency, low Global
But how to cook? Where will Warming Commit‐
the energy come from to cook ment.
One liter of hydrous ethanol provides a day of
the food? cooking for a family of 5. No smoke, soot or
dangerous gases are produced. Has been extensively
To Build Back Better, energy needs must tested and used in Africa and Brazil.
be considered an essential element in
rebuilding Haiti’s lives, forests, incomes Solution: the CleanCook stove!
and economy.
No.1 Lincoln Square, Box 4190 • GETTYSBURG PA 17325 • 1 717 334-5594 • WWW.PROJECTGAIA.COM
Project Gaia is a global
initiative promoting
clean alcohol fuels for
cooking, for the three
billion people who subsist
today on solid fuels.
Our Strategy:
PHASE 1: EMERGENCY INTERVENTION. Place stoves in a targeted community under the care
of a local partner (Viva Rio). Brazil has donated the ethanol for this. Develop logistics and
organization for larger intervention, set up fuel supply chain, train local staff and provide technical
support. Monitor experience with stoves and adjust stove design as necessary. Report to the
Haitian Government and interested partners.
PHASE 2: SCALE UP. Build on the lessons of Phase 1. Scale‐up ethanol & stove supply to IDP
camps and large communities. Partner with organizations with sufficient capacity to handle this
expansion. Address needs on a scale of 10 to 20 thousand families. Project Gaia will maintain
teams on the ground to provide support to partner organizations and assist with supply chains.
PHASE 3: SUSTAINABILITY & LOCAL DEVELOPMENT. Encourage government to pass a
biofuels plan to stimulate production of alcohol fuels for distributed energy supply. Assess the
state and capability of existing Haitian mills, distilleries and farms. Source best technology for
micro‐scale production and create model business plans. Assist in financing first projects. Facilitate
partnerships to build alcohol stove in Haiti. Introduce new energy feedstocks.
Our collaborators include: A donation of $50 will deliver a
Government of Haiti Ministry of clean, safe stove to a family.
Women’s Affairs, Government of Brazil
Ministry of External Relations, UNICA, When you sponsor a stove for a family,

COSAN, Dometic Group, Viva Rio Haiti, you provide clean air for women &
Marine Biological Lab (Woods Hole), children to breathe, you save Haiti’s
CODEP, Terra Endeavors, Inc., J&J Import vulnerable forests, and with shorter
BDP International, Trees Water People, cooking times you give women and their
Public Private Alliance Foundation families more time to rebuild their lives.
(PPAF). Other partners will join.
No.1 Lincoln Square, Box 4190 • GETTYSBURG PA 17325 • 1 717 334-5594 • WWW.PROJECTGAIA.COM

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Why Haiti? Why now? Why stoves?

Help for Haiti CHECKLIST:

Ministry of External Relations, UNICA, When you sponsor a stove for a family,

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