- Our long term projects -
Improving the Future
« Institutional » projects designed to be financed by international institutions like the IMF, World bank, F.A.O., USAID, Europe, etc..
Director of these projects: Philippe Fayolle
Road improvement in Northern Haiti project
Roads in that region are highly damaged because of heavy trucks riding overloaded especially coming from Dominican Republic.
Mayors are in charge of the roads but their budgets are extremely low and barely cover the usual maintenance. It is impossible for them to finance road works that would require asphalt manufacture and cold application trucks.
The project aims to support the Mayors' association of the Limbé/ Cap Haïtien area by:
- installing manufactures of gravel with small gyratory crusher. This will switch uncontrolled gravel manufacture from rivers to rock grinding.
- installing a small station that would mix binding and gravel to manufacture cold asphalt for the small repairs (potholes,..)
- 2 mixing trucks/ cold asphalt applicators
- one or few machines like road rollers to stabilize the sub-layer, which as never been done and causes the current degradation state
- training work supervisors.
We already have selected a material supplier that has the appropriate technology (CTP -30). We also have a partnership with a binding formulator (SORIGUE - Spain).
Once the material is ready, designation contracts will be made by the mayors with local entrepreneurs who will only invoice the supplies and application without investment payback.
Waste management projects
Reed beds "Lagunage" project
There is no fluid treatment system such as sewers or purification plants. This lack regularly causes epidemics like typhoid, cholera, gastroenteritis... There is one very efficient, natural and chemical free way: the reed beds "lagunage". The Cirad in Montpellier is a specialist widely renown for its reed beds station in Mèze.
Before asking for European subventions, it is necessary for a specialist to come and study the local environment.
This project is being put together by the French region of Occitanie, the agglomeration of Montpellier, the city of Mèze and the Cirad, from one side and on the other side by the Mayors' association of the Limbé/ Cap Haïtien area.
Vespalite
This system has been brought up by a French engineer and will soon be installed in big cities like Paris. It's a small public and individual reed bed plant without chemical or network dependency.
Such a system would greatly improve collective and individual hygiene conditions.
Collaboration with the city hall of Paris.
Energy and information project
There is no local electricity stations; electricity is produced by shared or individual generators in very small quantity.
Regarding Internet, only wealthy people can pretend using it, costs are so high and only available through cell phone services.
The idea is to develop a global concept mixing energy and communication, the electricity cable.
Creation of a « smart grid » to delocalize supply sources and face emergency situations due to frequent natural disaster.
The « smart grid » is a network that simply links all energy productions together whatever and wherever they are allowing the consumer to also be producer.
Some energy sources: family solar panel, photovoltaic fields, individual or big wind turbines, hydraulic production stations using water flow or static.
These stations will all be equipped by a connected electronic device that will inform a general system, manage productions and local consumption. In case of emergency or damage, this device will also alert security.
Productions will be individual as much as possible: solar floor lamp, solar individual A/C, fridges, etc… Each source would aim to be connected to the « smart grid ».
The electricity cable isn't the only way to deliver information. Solar lamp floor will be equipped with WiFi and telecoms transmitters. This tight network allows to face station collapsing during natural events.
In order to bring autonomy to the very isolated region of Northern Haiti, an emission/ reception satellite system will be installed on a safe point avoiding the use of cable that can be easily cut.
Smartphones will then be used as peer-to-peer relays using a dedicated app able to trace the whole network.
This whole concept will avoid construction of bigger station as the needs disappear anyway.
The MIT of Boston will bring its knowhow of the « Grid » as they already developed these solutions in Africa. Peer-to-peer software will be available on Open-source. The material will either be standard (solar lamp floors and other solar systems) or newly developed such as barge stations following the water flow, Archimedes screw mini station, horizontal wind facility for buildings, etc..
The installation of solar lamp floors will have a huge impact improving the local life conditions and security of inhabitants. Almost none exist today, not even at crossroads or red lights, streets, dangerous zones... This situation also explains why it is very hard for NGOs to come in the area.
