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Haiti - Environment : End of Charcoal for cooking at Metropolitan Industrial Park 09/03/2013 14:57:30
The rehabilitation of food center and installation of propane gas is the initiative of a partnership between the Sonapi (National Society of Industrial Parks) Recho Pa'w (U.S. Agency for International Development interna - USAID) and Sodigaz (Dinasa). Initiated in April 2012, the redevelopment project of food center now enables merchants to cook with propane gas for their customers in the industrial park in better working conditions, of hygiene and safety. The PIM has spent more than 13 million gourdes to rehabilitate the area, which hosts 52 merchant of food, beverage vendors and more than 4,500 consumers. The installation of a kiosk selling water is also part of the new equipment. For Georges Barau Sassine, the Director of the Sonapi "This project fits precisely in the desire of the Society to offer eco-friendly equipment ; from today to the Park, there will be no longer charcoal ! We hope that this initiative will have a demonstration effect and that it will serve as an example to other facilities of the same type." This is also what has welcomed the Minister of Energy Security which has stressed this is a "historic moment, the culmination of a long effort that we mus tduplicate." "N’ap bay debwazman yon kalot," added é Édouard Baussan, President of the Dinasa. "Men anpil, chaj pa lou," continued Ebony Bostik USAID Representative, to express the joint effort of three partners who have made this project a success. "Recho Pa' w" a project funded by USAID, locally produced stoves with two and three burners, that the merchant could get a discount. The society Sodigaz, was responsible for the installation of gas piping. "For two weeks, we trained users in handling of gas and stoves, so that they work in greater safety," explained Jean Raynald Boyer, Director General of Sodigaz. Two cylinders of 100 lbs propane, are allocated in consignment to each merchant, through the SONAPI, which serves as an interface and safeguard of equipment and facilities.  Propane gas is sold to the merchant Sodigaz at wholesale prices. The merchant expressed their enthusiasm, "li fasil, li pi pwòp epi tou, li pi ekonomik, kounye a, se a 9h30 ke m’mete pwa yo..." said Mrs. Charlemagne, a cook, that welcomes its new space and reduced cooking time. As recalled the Minister Laleau the Government Martelly-Lamothe has the ambition to convert 50% of households, to the use of alternative energy in 2016. "With these 52 cooking stations, the Metropolitan Industrial Park provides an example to follow." This development, inaugurated during the "International Women's Day," symbolically marks a progress for the merchant, who cook to the SONAPI. This is a first step in the modernization of facilities of PIM, which is expected to expanded by the end of 2013, with a space of modern canteen, with facilities for cooking, catering and toilets. Learn more about the SONAPI aracol Industrial Park (PIC), and the Metropolitan Industrial Park (PIM) in Port-au-Prince, are the property of the National Society of Industrial Parks (SONAPI), an autonomous body under public law, of industrial and commercial nature, which has among other things, for responsibilities, to mplement, organize and manage through the territory, the Industrial Parks. PIM houses 53 standard industrial buildings and more than 10,000 workers working there. HL/ HaitiLibre
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