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[jenny Nazak <jnazak@yahoo.com>]

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差出人: "SUN OVENS International, Inc." <info@sunoven.com>
日時: February 3, 2010 11:43:44 AM PST
宛先: jnazak@yahoo.com
件名: Help Us Help Haiti Update


Much progress has been made in the efforts to expand the use of Sun Ovens to 
Haiti. On January 28, 2010, two large Villager Sun Ovens, 160 Global Sun 
Ovens, 200 cardboard solar cookers and 2,000 Water Pasteurization Indicators 
(WAPIs) were shipped. In addition, arrangements are underway for 297 Haitian 
made Global Sun Ovens from the assembly plant in Lambert, Haiti to be 
distributed to families left homeless by the recent earthquake.  A shipment 
of parts to reopen the assembly plant is scheduled for February 8.  
 
A partnership has been initiated with Bright Hope International, a NGO which 
has been working in Haiti for more than 15 years. The majority of the Sun 
Ovens will be distributed to families living in a tent city which has sprung 
up at a garbage dump in Port au Prince. Bright Hope is currently providing 
food and medicine to 429 families at this location. Some of the ovens will 
also be used in tent cities in Pignon, which is 79 miles north of 
Port-au-Prince and has doubled in size from 35,000 to 65,000 people in the 
past two weeks. I will be traveling to Haiti in early February to assist in 
the distribution and training.  Bright Hope plans to send additional 
shipments to Haiti of food, medicine and Sun Ovens throughout the month of 
February.
 
With hundreds of thousands of Haitians homeless and living in make shift tent 
camps the need for Sun Ovens is immense. Most of the tent camps and are using 
charcoal to cook. The smoke in these camps strains the health of women and 
children who are all ready malnourished and dehydrated.  
 
The cost of each Sun Oven with two pots and WAIPs is $199. Donations of any 
amount will be greatly appreciated.  Checks should be made payable to:
Friends of Haiti Organization
PO Box 222
Holland, OH  43528
(Please note the donation is for the Sun Oven project.)
 
Credit card donations can be made through the Sun Oven website. Donations 
will be forwarded to FOHO and FOHO will issue a receipt by mail. Click here 
to donate.
 
FOHO is a 501C3 nonprofit organization so all donations will be tax 
deductible. 100% of the donation will go directly to sending Sun Ovens to 
Haiti no administrative expenses will be deducted. 
 
Thank you for your interest and support.
 
Warmly yours, 
Paul M. Munsen
 
SUN OVENS International, Inc. 
39W835 Midan Drive
Elburn, IL  60119
Web site: www.sunoven.com
E-mail: info@sunoven.com
Phone: 630-208-7273
            800-408-7919
Fax:     630-208-7386
The sun is a free gift from God!




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jenny Nazak wrote:
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> 差出人: "SUN OVENS International, Inc." <info@sunoven.com>
> 日時: February 3, 2010 11:43:44 AM PST
> 宛先: jnazak@yahoo.com
> 件名: Help Us Help Haiti Update
>
>
> Much progress has been made in the efforts to expand the use of Sun Ovens 
> to Haiti.
> Warmly yours,
> Paul M. Munsen
>
> SUN OVENS International, Inc.
> 39W835 Midan Drive
> Elburn, IL  60119
> Web site: www.sunoven.com
> E-mail: info@sunoven.com
> Phone: 630-208-7273
>             800-408-7919
> Fax:     630-208-7386
> The sun is a free gift from God!

Great idea! What about a flood of rocket stoves heading to Haiti, Jenny?
Some designed for cooking, some for heating water. This could be useful
in purifying water for cooking and washing dishes, maybe drinking.
I heard something on the Dianne Rheem Show this morning about problems
associated with donated material goods destined to end users in Haiti
not reaching those people because of the lack of infrastructure needed
to receive them then deliver them to people in need. The example today
was about medical (non-medicine), survival/camping and hygiene supplies
delivered to the wrong place and eventually getting stuck in the system
somewhere until they could be moved to destination. Seems to me this is
a problem that permaculture aid groups will have. Someone should put up
a blog or website with info on exactly where to go to help or deliver
goods.

On a totally different note here are a couple of small articles on the
history of Haiti voodoo (forget the zombie and black magic stuff, which
has nothing to do with voodoo), something I have been interested in for
a long time.
Voodoo is official in Haiti
http://www.boingboing.net/2003/04/09/voodoo-is-official-i.html#previouspost
Wade Davis on voodoo, the Haiti quake, and Pat Robertson
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/02/02/wade-davis-on-voodoo.html
"Anthropologist Wade Davis is an incredibly engaging and eloquent
explorer of the world's cultural diversity, what he calls the
Ethnosphere. He has written a slew of amazing books about the dangers
faced by disappearing cultures, both to the people whose vibrant
cultures are getting wiped out, and to us. His latest book is The
Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World, based on his
CBC Massey Lectures last year, but he is perhaps best known for The
Serpent and the Rainbow (1985), an illuminating study of Haitian voodoo
and zombis. National Geographic interviewed Davis about the earthquake
in Haiti, voodoo, and Pat Robertson's idiocy. From National Geographic:"

As I understand it, in Haiti you have two ethnic groups, the creoles who
are part white and two distinctly different groups of blacks, each of
whom originated from one of two countries in Africa, whose religious
orientation consists of those embracing voodoo and those practicing
black magic. Black magic came to Haiti from Congolese Africans and has
been "nurtured" and practiced there by them to the present. The Duvalier
family and their Tonton Macoute were deeply into this and used it to
subjugate peaceful Haitian people, many of whom practiced voodoo, those
who were not Catholic. This is probably a great oversimplification but
still provides a little background containing some degree of accuracy.

Back to rocket stoves!