This communication project has a number of steps and requirements. We are striving to set in place a system that will have internet access for “Our School” as well as other local educational and humanitarian projects who’s ability to communicate with the rest of the world is limited. We need to raise $1,400 (a one time fee) to install a satellite for Internet access. When you combine this with the use of donated broken and used laptops, digital cameras and cam cords that can be circulated in the Pichon / Bell-Anse / Port-Au-Prince area, an international presence will be further assisted, as well as an increased understanding of what is happening in their world.

Board member John Siegel (scientist and inventor) has designed a low cost, easy to maintain, solar array power system and prototype LED lighting to provide energy for lights and a few (used) laptop computers at Lekol Pa Nou. The LED emitter is designed to run for over 20 years without replacing. The LED’s (light emitting diodes) used in the emitters are the world’s most advanced lighting technology. This system is cost effective enough that our goal is to install a similar system in the neighboring school of Belle-Anse, allowing both schools to not only benefit from lighting and the learning power of computers, but to be able to communicate via the laptops to each other. This can be done with simple telephone cables, or through the use of a satellite system that we are striving to install, which would connect these regions to each other and the world via the Internet.

John and his family want to assist other impoverished and environmentally challenged communities around the world with forms of alternative energy.

LED’s provide light through direct radiation of Photons, as opposed to Photon conveyance via a hot wire filament, as in the case of short lasting, energy consuming, hot running, incandescence lights. Translated into practical terms LED’s are bright, long lasting light that needs very little power. At the center of a LED is a specially layered, polarized and chemically treated crystal that emits light (Photon energy partials). Photons are partials that exist as a particle and as a wave. They are among the particles that bridge the gap between the concepts of matter and energy.

We are always in need of software; (broken or working) computers, laptops, digital cameras, cam cords, and accessories for our computer loan program. In our technological society, computer skills are a must. Not just for students, but for workers as well. Additionally computer access for the disabled individual is invaluable. Computer skills increase employability, productivity, education, communication, global understanding and accessibility. Material donations of this kind are tax deductible. Contact the below board members to see what is needed at this time.