[Stoves] Puerto Rico

Nikhil Desai pienergy2008 at gmail.com
Mon Oct 9 10:54:50 CDT 2017


Tom:

Just as canned food and crackers can alleviate hunger, battery cells can
alleviate darkness and isolation.

I was contacted about the possibility of getting solar lanterns - which
also charge mobile phones - to Haiti within two days of the 12 January 2010
earthquake. Emergency funds and procurement were mobilized to deliver them
to Haiti, though it did take over a month.

Some women's law group wrote about this a few months after the quake, and
there is a news item here
<https://reliefweb.int/report/haiti/haitian-women-live-fear-rape-post-quake-camps>
from
August 2010 saying the lanterns provided security to women in camps.

Since Samer has written on the narrative of improved stoves reducing sexual
violence, I thought he might ponder whether a light in darkness - to be
able to recognize the predator's face (as that Haiti review said) - is more
valuable for women's empowerment than stoves.

Or wonder why aid agencies have failed to deliver the first light in
darkness to some 1 billion people still without the grid or solar. (Haiti
was an exception, as are various solar projects of the World Bank group and
EU).

Back 25 years ago, there were no ISO standards for solar home systems, but
once they were set, multi-lateral aid took off. I very much doubt that
would happen with biomass stoves except in 2-3 countries and even there
only with contextual test protocols and stove design.

Incidentally, I have some experience of earthquake relief, post-flood
rehabilitation, and refugee camps. Just one of each doesn't make me an
expert, but I think Puerto Rico is a more serious situation than Haiti was
two weeks after the disaster struck.

Nikhil


On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 10:37 AM, <tmiles at trmiles.com> wrote:

> Good point. Most organizations are geared up for disaster relief. Unless
> someone has the inventory and logistics, or they are already on the ground
> in these territories, I won’t think they could respond. Some of the ready
> to assemble refugee stoves might be appropriate if they were on hand.
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> Tom
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> *From:* Stoves [mailto:stoves-bounces at lists.bioenergylists.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Samer Abdelnour
> *Sent:* Monday, October 09, 2017 2:59 AM
> *To:* stoves <stoves at lists.bioenergylists.org>
> *Subject:* [Stoves] Puerto Rico
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> Given the push to deliver cookstoves in-post disaster situations (e.g.
> Haiti), I am surprised I have not read much about delivering stoves to
> Puerto Rico given widespread electricity outage?
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