What We Do
Clean water and green energy first — then a stronger infrastructure.
Haiti has been facing two energy challenges: a broken electricity sector and a dependency on charcoal. The country's electricity sector is among the most challenged in the region — only about a quarter of the population had access to electricity before the 2010 earthquake, and many of those connections were informal.
Access to water and sanitation is also very limited, particularly in rural areas, because sustainable collection and treatment of sewage is practically non-existent in much of the country.
Our focus
While we are dedicated to more than six major causes within Haiti, our main focus is developing resources for clean drinking water and energy-efficient, consistent and reliable power. Today many businesses in Haiti use environmentally unfriendly diesel generators, and food is often prepared using wood as fuel.
Apart from the environmental damage of cutting trees for fuel, cooking with firewood and charcoal exposes the population to smoke and indoor air pollution. Developing green energy through solar farms, wind farms and hydroelectric power can change the way the country works as a whole, how businesses run and how families live.
By changing the way the country is powered, Save Haiti can then work on transforming its infrastructure — transportation, city planning, clean water and a proper sewage system. These improvements can give the Haitian people a happier and much healthier quality of life, one that will continue to flourish and grow.
Together, we can do this
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