Thanks to a gutsy and visionary move, Lemon Aid, a non-profit organization based in Scotland, initiated a study for a new hospital for La Gonave and has already raised significant funding, enough to move forward. The architects and engineers have given us the final drawings upon which we will build a new hospital across the road from the current one. Our new hospital will have 44 inpatient beds. We will have an emergency room and two fully-equipped surgery suites, clean running water and flush toilets.
But, Starfysh had one more question to ask... “What might it mean if we could free the hospital, forever, from its daily operation energy costs?” Because in doing so, we could move the hospital a huge step toward sustainability, less dependent on the outside world to prop it up.
Vision: A Hospital for La Gonave...Powered by the Sun.
We have met with electrical engineers who posess vast experience in third world hospital builds and, after studying the La Gonaveʼs unique situation, have indicated that a solar powered hospital is possible. And, after much consideration, we have decided that itʼs worth it. We will go solar. The energy requirements of the new hospital will be met “off grid”... one of the only hospitals in the world powered by the sun, Haitiʼs most abundant natural resource.
Of course it will cost. But we believe the return on investment will be substantial: it will bring transformation of an island one giant step closer.
Learn how you can become involved with this new initative and all our other intiatives on our projects page.
Seems strange. Barely one year ago a few friends gathered for coffee. Over eggs and omelets, I shared my heart about a desperately poor, yet beautiful and precious people that I had grown to love over the past couple of decades of working in Haiti. And how I had decided to “go public,” with my intentions to make a difference in their lives. My early plans for setting out along the non-profit path were motivated out of a need for a structure with which I could leverage and organize the relationships and connections from the various areas of my life into a network of folks who might be able to help me do some very cool things for a broken-down people.
Dear Friends,