The Meetings after the Meeting
Our group from PPAF, SIMACT, Project Gaia and the Haitian-American Chamber of Commerce of Florida and New York attended a reception held by Mercy Corps to honor Patrick Delatour. At this we spoke with a number of Haitian and American business people and government officials, including Minister Delatour.
Haitian Minister of Tourism (and reconstruction) Patrick Delatour, with the President of Mercy Corps, a Vice President of Carnival Cruise Lines, a former Peace Corps Haiti director and Senator Landrieu of Louisiana
At dinner after the reception, Harry Stokes of Project Gaia was able to demonstrate an ethanol cookstove to Minister Delatour.
Minister Delatour (c) with friends including Lesly Kernisant (top left) and cookstove
This initiative brought to the attention of one of Haiti’s highest officials the practical possibilities of the ethanol cookstoves being promoted through Project Gaia, SIMACT, and PPAF. The ethanol-burning cookstoves can help overcome hardships from the earthquake and help change people’s lives as Haiti seeks to “build back better.”
Inexpensive, efficient, safe, time-saving, and healthy, the stoves and their fuel make possible reduced reliance on charcoal, new small and medium enterprise opportunities, revival of sugar-based agribusiness, and environmental and carbon credit advantages.
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