haiti mission

APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY AGRO-ECOLOGY AND SUSTAINABLE

COMMUNITIES IN MISSION WORK IN HAITI

High impact mission projects to provide timely and sustainable solutions for urgent

issues in Thomas/in HaitiBruce Campbell , June 26, 2011

Deforestation and loss of topsoil

Main Market in Port au Prince

Meeting at a Dry Land Farm

Sustainable infrastructure and appropriate technology improvements for the School Lunch Program and School in general

School is microcosm of community Pyrolytic Stoves and Kitchen Improvements Organic Kitchen Garden(s) and Composting Bio-sand Filters Dry Eco-sanitation Greywater collection and use Rainwater harvest and water harvesting earthworks Permaculture Approaches to restore soils, watersheds and

sustainable communities

The Farmer and the Children

Pyrolytic stoves (with kitchen improvements)

Smoke from Cooking fires kill thousands of women and children in Haiti every year (CO poisoning and chronic lung damage)

Charcoal costs for cooking average 40% of monthly budget for many Haitian families ($275/month for Charcoal in School Lunch Program)

Deforestation and destruction of new growth continues because charcoal is so valuable/expensive

The School Kitchen

Charcoal at the market

Pyrolytic Stove Solutions

Eliminates most smoke and CO (healthy cooking environment)

Can burn almost any dry biomass (inexpensive & eliminates need for wood/deforestation)

Can produce valuable by-product/income stream: bio-char

Carbon negative Possible small businesses fabricating pyrolytic stoves Working with WorldStove President

Haitian model of the 'Lucia' stove that turns biomass into biochar, and

cooks dinner, too

Lucia Stove for Institutional Use

Organic Kitchen/Demonstration Garden(s) and Composting

Collaboration between local farmers and school Teach children / parents how to grow nutritious

organic food sustainably Grow food for School Lunch Program Need to clear space(s) for kitchen garden(s) and

composting bins (food forest landscape) Trial, Demonstration and Instructional Garden

(farmers, school and community) Teach science and sustainability through garden

concepts

Meeting with the Farmers

Meeting w/ Farmer Mssr. Ocean

With Farmer Mssr. Ocean

Meeting with Farmer

Kitchen garden location

Underutilized area between Toilet and Kitchen

Land behind Church/School

Sanitation and Hygiene

Inadequate public and household sanitation is a major cause of childhood mortality and environmental degradation

Pit toilets and cesspools dominant technology Ground and surface water contamination Cholera outbreaks Disease vectors

Malodorous and unsanitary

Current Toilet - Cesspool Facility

Dry Eco-Sanitation Solutions

Dry collection and aerobic composting of human excreta is hygienic, kills all pathogens and produces a high value/quality organic fertilizer.

The Give Love Dry EcoSan system and its successful field implementation

UMCOR and UMVIM Pilot project collaboration with Give Love

Jean (Give Love) and Principal

Dry Toilet and Lavatory

Lavatory and Urinal

EcoSan Thermophilic Composter

Bagasse and sawdust

The Big Picture

Mission Projects to assist Haitian schools/ communities develop and evolve sustainably

Similarities in sustainable organic agriculture/gardening and use of appropriate technologies at the Garden of Grace and Haitian School Program

Garden of Grace as a training resource for missionaries preparing for appropriate and sustainable technology projects.

Some of the kids

The First School Lunch!

Thomas EMH School