From: Danise Gaspard, PES Secretary
Monthly Report: July/August 2002


During the month of July we visited several schools but the administration explained to us the scarcity of money facing the population and deferred to the opening of classes in September.

Demonstrations:

Date
Place
Group
Staff in charge

August 17
Nazon, zone called Trou Sable
Eglise Mouvement missionnaire (Church Missionary Movement)
Gardy and Esnaïder

Seminars:

1.

Date
Place
Organizer
Participants
Staff in charge

August 26-28
Thomonde
Darlene Young
Open to the public
Esnaïder and Gardy

Note: Due to the serious illness of the children in the Young family, this seminar was not able to be carried out as scheduled. However Mrs. Young reported that solar cooking and the making of panels will be included in the school curriculum for their students at Thomonde beginning in September.

2.

Date
Place
Organizer
Organized for Number of Participants
Staff in charge

August 28-30
Jean Rabel
PAPDA, Jean André R., leader
A group of teachers
32
Esnaïder and Gardy

This group of teachers wish to learn from the seminar about solar cooking in general and water pasteurization in particular, because there is no drinking water in Jean Rabel. The seminar costs were all paid in advance, but on the scheduled date, the leader who was to take us to Jean Rabel never showed up. We tried to contact him at the PAPDA office, but were never able to find him.

Follow-up:
During the month of August, the staff consulted all of the files from the Program to review the organizations or institutions which had already received a visit, a demonstration or a seminar concerning the making or a solar cooker and solar cooking techniques. There are some institutions and organizations which merit another eventual visit. We will try to make a schedule for this follow-up.

We contacted some people who had already taken a seminar on the techniques of solar cooking and questioned them as to their activities. They affirmed that they are in the process of sharing their knowledge with their neighbors in order to practice solar cooking, combat deforestation in Haiti and protect the environment.

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