2023 ACTIVITIES
July - December 2023
Solar Cooking at the UN High Level Political Forum for Sustainable Development -
In July PPAF joined with Solar Cookers International to host an exhibit on solar cooking at UN headquarters during the annual High-Level Political Forum. Given below is the PPAF presentation.
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January-June 2023
in the first quarter of 2023 PPAF has focused on expansion of solar work in Jacmel and Hinche. This is described in our report to GlobalGiving: Report 23 - New initiatives despite Haiti's crisis
Haiti continues to experience great stress and insecurity, especially in the capital city. However, PPAF, Haitian colleagues and international friends are making progress in Hinche and Jacmel..
In this report, we highlight a new effort in and around Hinche, where a collaborator has donated sets of solar cookers to several orphanages. PPAF is supporting demonstrations, training, and encouragement of their use. The left side of the picture above shows firewood under a cooking pot – the usual way meals are cooked for the children in these orphanages. On the right side is a demonstration of cooking with sunshine – a welcome initiative. About 50 small children live at each of the orphanages. Cooks and primary school teachers are on the staff. Some children have lost their parents, but others are from destitute families. Firewood, bought or collected, is a daily burden for all, with financial and health costs.
Haiti continues to experience great stress and insecurity, especially in the capital city. However, PPAF, Haitian colleagues and international friends are making progress in Hinche and Jacmel..
In this report, we highlight a new effort in and around Hinche, where a collaborator has donated sets of solar cookers to several orphanages. PPAF is supporting demonstrations, training, and encouragement of their use. The left side of the picture above shows firewood under a cooking pot – the usual way meals are cooked for the children in these orphanages. On the right side is a demonstration of cooking with sunshine – a welcome initiative. About 50 small children live at each of the orphanages. Cooks and primary school teachers are on the staff. Some children have lost their parents, but others are from destitute families. Firewood, bought or collected, is a daily burden for all, with financial and health costs.
PPAF featured in article about carbon-free cooking.
PPAF is among several organizations featured in a recent online journal article:
2022 ACTIVITIES
PPAF's work for tracking awareness and use of solar cookers in Haiti is advancing in several ways in three locations. Among these is the work of two young colleagues who have recently produced short videos about the environmental and health damage caused by the great dependence by Haitian families on charcoal for cooking and the possibilities of solar cooking as an alternative. Please go to the video section of our website to view these.
2021 PROGRAM EVENTS
Solar Cooking Tests in Jacmel and Hinche
.Since July 2021 a colleague and his neighbor in Jacmel have been sending us regular reports and photos of solar cooking experiments. Together we designed a data sheet that captures the basics. The connections are all by WhatsApp. We have enough information now to begin analysis, and it is both useful and a pleasure to see photos of cooking preparations and results. In Hinche a recent graduate of the university often takes his solar cooker for demonstrations around town, and he posts the results on social media. This has sparked interest by leaders of a community organization that is devoted to local improvements. See below the presentation from November for Jacmel.
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Solar Cooking at the UN High Level Political Forum for Sustainable Development - July 9
SEE PPAF's presentation in the .pdf below.
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1:00 pm to 2:30 pm - Solar Cooking – This approved Side Event was sponsored by Solar Cookers International and the Public-Private Alliance Foundation. It featured cross-cutting solutions in the recovery from COVID-19, to help achieve the 2030 Agenda of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Solar Cookers International (SCI) and the Public-Private Alliance Foundation (PPAF) showcased solar cooking as a cross-cutting solution in the recovery from COVID-19 and to help achieve the 2030 Agenda of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Solar cooking advocates from diverse regions and including civil society, research groups, women groups, and academia spotlighted evidence-based results, interlinkages to the SDGs, and how a Voluntary National Review can create an enabling environment for scaling solar cooking.
Solar energy for clean cooking makes possible switching from cooking over open fires to solar cooking in many countries. It builds community resilience through many benefits. Families use free solar energy for cooking and water pasteurization. People breathe cleaner air and drink safer water. Local people earn income by constructing solar cookers. Families save money otherwise spent on fuel and gain energy independence. Time available for school and work increases by reducing time spent collecting firewood. Solar drying techniques preserve food and add value to agricultural products, which, in turn, increases food security. Solar cooking can be incorporated into all cultures and practices. Biodiversity increases by avoiding the felling of trees for cooking fuel. Respiratory infections and smoke-related illnesses decrease. Countries can save many dollars annually, through avoided health and environmental costs. Solar power is the wave of the future and it has always been available. It is time to take advantage of this more fully as we seek to achieve all the SDGs.
Landing page and registration: https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/index.php?page=view&type=20000&nr=7608&menu=2993
More about the HLPF is available here:: https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/hlpf/2021.
Solar Cookers International (SCI) and the Public-Private Alliance Foundation (PPAF) showcased solar cooking as a cross-cutting solution in the recovery from COVID-19 and to help achieve the 2030 Agenda of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Solar cooking advocates from diverse regions and including civil society, research groups, women groups, and academia spotlighted evidence-based results, interlinkages to the SDGs, and how a Voluntary National Review can create an enabling environment for scaling solar cooking.
Solar energy for clean cooking makes possible switching from cooking over open fires to solar cooking in many countries. It builds community resilience through many benefits. Families use free solar energy for cooking and water pasteurization. People breathe cleaner air and drink safer water. Local people earn income by constructing solar cookers. Families save money otherwise spent on fuel and gain energy independence. Time available for school and work increases by reducing time spent collecting firewood. Solar drying techniques preserve food and add value to agricultural products, which, in turn, increases food security. Solar cooking can be incorporated into all cultures and practices. Biodiversity increases by avoiding the felling of trees for cooking fuel. Respiratory infections and smoke-related illnesses decrease. Countries can save many dollars annually, through avoided health and environmental costs. Solar power is the wave of the future and it has always been available. It is time to take advantage of this more fully as we seek to achieve all the SDGs.
Landing page and registration: https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/index.php?page=view&type=20000&nr=7608&menu=2993
More about the HLPF is available here:: https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/hlpf/2021.
A Successful Special Earth Week Notice and Plea - April 19-22
GlobalGiving chose PPAF to participate in its Climate Action Campaign, from Monday April 19 through Friday evening April 23. All gifts of up to $100 were fully matched, with a ceiling of $2,000 per organization. Each gift must be from a separately identifiable donor.
GREAT NEWS: PPAF raised a total of $4,800, which gives us a good base for strengthening our collaboration with Haitian and other colleagues at three sites – the solar cooking and biodigester/biogas course at the University Notre Dame d’Haiti at Hinche, the solar cooking classes for low-income kids at the Art Creation Foundation for Children in Jacmel, and the solar cooking and biodigester/biogas components of the new community center in Cotes de Fer.
GREAT NEWS: PPAF raised a total of $4,800, which gives us a good base for strengthening our collaboration with Haitian and other colleagues at three sites – the solar cooking and biodigester/biogas course at the University Notre Dame d’Haiti at Hinche, the solar cooking classes for low-income kids at the Art Creation Foundation for Children in Jacmel, and the solar cooking and biodigester/biogas components of the new community center in Cotes de Fer.
PPAF and Colleagues Support Climate Action in Haiti
PPAF works with Haitian and other colleagues to support climate action and advocacy to help implement the UN Sustainable Development Goals. This is part of PPAF’s basic philosophy of “Policies into Practice.”
Most Haitian families depend on charcoal for cooking, but they also know it damages their land and their health. Haiti is increasingly affected by severe weather, coastline degradation and deforestation. To combat these PPAF and colleagues focus on teaching and action for improved cooking methods. Free fuel from the sun makes possible solar cooking, and organic waste enables biodigesters to produce biogas for cooking and fertilizer for gardens.
PPAF and collaborators support a "first-ever in Haiti" course on solar and biogas at the University Notre Dame d'Haiti at Hinche (UNDH-Hinche). Now in its third year of classroom and fieldwork, it engages students in nursing, biomedical and biosciences to explore the subject, construct solar cookers and biodigesters, nurture vegetables and trees in a garden they have created, and enjoy the results of all this in picnic lunches for the entire class.
At the Art Creation Foundation for Children (ACFFC), in Jacmel, PPAF supports after-school classes in cooking and sewing to help low-income kids learn employable skills. The latest focus is to learn assembly and use of solar cookers. The teens and pre-teens build self-esteem and competence with an innovation that can save family money otherwise spent on charcoal.
PPAF and colleagues are offering support to a community center now taking shape in Cotes-de-Fer - the home town of a key collaborator. To help make the center innovative and sustainable, PPAF has thus far provided solar cookers and supported the installation of a biodigester which is already producing cooking gas and garden fertilizer.
Here are photos from the three project sites:
Most Haitian families depend on charcoal for cooking, but they also know it damages their land and their health. Haiti is increasingly affected by severe weather, coastline degradation and deforestation. To combat these PPAF and colleagues focus on teaching and action for improved cooking methods. Free fuel from the sun makes possible solar cooking, and organic waste enables biodigesters to produce biogas for cooking and fertilizer for gardens.
PPAF and collaborators support a "first-ever in Haiti" course on solar and biogas at the University Notre Dame d'Haiti at Hinche (UNDH-Hinche). Now in its third year of classroom and fieldwork, it engages students in nursing, biomedical and biosciences to explore the subject, construct solar cookers and biodigesters, nurture vegetables and trees in a garden they have created, and enjoy the results of all this in picnic lunches for the entire class.
At the Art Creation Foundation for Children (ACFFC), in Jacmel, PPAF supports after-school classes in cooking and sewing to help low-income kids learn employable skills. The latest focus is to learn assembly and use of solar cookers. The teens and pre-teens build self-esteem and competence with an innovation that can save family money otherwise spent on charcoal.
PPAF and colleagues are offering support to a community center now taking shape in Cotes-de-Fer - the home town of a key collaborator. To help make the center innovative and sustainable, PPAF has thus far provided solar cookers and supported the installation of a biodigester which is already producing cooking gas and garden fertilizer.
Here are photos from the three project sites:
2020 PROGRAM EVENTS
December 1 is #GivingTuesday. Please give generously on that day to support our Solar Cooker and Biogas projects in Haiti.
In the photos above students at Université Notre Dame d'Haiti at Hinche show off the solar cookers and model bio-digesters they built as homework in the course PPAF supports - the first of its kind in Haiti. The course will help students to learn and to spread clean cooking and to help families save money and protect their health, through eliminating the noxious daily use of charcoal.
PLEASE GIVE ON TUESDAY USING THIS LINK: GlobalGiving is providing bonuses to projects that receive funds on December 1. https://www.globalgiving.org/…/tracking-clean-cookstoves-a…/
PPAF presentation at the United Nations
On July 8, 2020, in an online program at the United Nations, PPAF highlighted recent work at the university and the children’s center we support in Haiti. This was a virtual seminar on solar cooking as a transformative technology for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. It was held as part of the annual UN High Level Political Forum, which this year has had to be all online. The seminar was a collaboration among Solar Cookers International, the Haitian hometown association KDCK and PPAF.
As a result, PPAF already has requests for more solar cookers for the students. For a quick review of the PPAF presentation, please see the attached PDF.
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Fighting COVID-19 --
Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Madagascar Our foundation aims to do what we can in each of our three focus countries to help in the battle against COVID-19, the terrible pandemic. Click here to join us. We have given project support to a public medical clinic at the University Notre Dame d'Haiti in Hinche, Haiti, to sewing and cooking classes at the Art Creation Foundation for Children in Jacmel, Haiti, to the community medical center of the Association for the Development of San Cristobal in the Dominican Republic, and to the staff and community organizers of the environmental protection nonprofit FANAMBY in Madagascar. We have also assisted the Haiti Adolescent Girls Network. In the case of the ACFFC in Jacmel, the cooking classes have shifted to preparing cornbread, rice or beans on solar cookers, both to help feed the children who stop by during quarantine and to reduce the need for pricey propane. The sewing classes have shifted to making face masks out of dress fabric, to give to the children, their families and their neighbors. PPAF has long-standing relations in each of these countries. We will continue to help as resources become available. Please donate here. |
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POLICIES INTO PRACTICE
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PPAF works to help people in Haiti with innovations and collaborations. Read more about our organization and strategy below. We work with a Haitian university and Haitian non-profits as well as American organizations on clean cooking and capacity-building. We also convene seminars and make presentations for information-sharing and advocacy.
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The Public-Private Alliance Foundation (PPAF), a non-profit organization, promotes the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and a business approach for poverty alleviation through projects and seminars involving multi-stakeholder cooperation.
PPAF engages in work on clean cookstoves and fuel, public health, renewable energy, employable skills and other aspects of sustainable development, with a special focus on empowerment of women and girls. |
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PPAF was established in 2007 as an outgrowth of the UN Public-Private Alliance for Rural Development and the interest of ambassadors to the UN from Madagascar, the Dominican Republic and Haiti.
PPAF has worked with dozens of organizations, businesses and government representatives in these focus countries and in the UN and related institutions. Since the 2010 Haiti earthquake we have focused our work on Haiti. |
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Special attention goes to efforts to overcome the poverty-respiratory disease-deforestation trap of Haitian families' heavy reliance on charcoal for cooking.
PPAF works with many Haitian and U.S.-based collaborators. Together we support teaching and fieldwork on cooking with solar and biogas and for support to the young entrepreneurs program of a children's center. PPAF links with the UN Economic & Social Council, the UN Department of Global Communication, the UN Global Compact and others. |
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