Earthquake Emergency
Solar Dome Televillage Initiative

Project Green Haiti is a roadmap to rebuild Haiti’s devastated economy into a green economy in order to create a sustainable future. 

The Earthquake Emergency Solar Dome Televillage Initiative project offers a framework, platform, and tools for the homeless to gain the knowledge they need to direct their economic destiny and improve their lives.

The mission is to create a network of Solar Dome Televillages connected to the Internet and powered with solar energy throughout the country.  Our vision is to educate and empower the poor and homeless of the world to gain the knowledge and capabilities that will enable them to create a high standard of living in a global sustainable future.

We are at the end of the Industrial Revolution and the beginning of the Green Technology and Information Revolutions in which renewable energy and digital technology will power and inform a new entrepreneurial Age of Distributed Power -- and Distributed Empowerment.

Project Green Haiti in 1995: In the summer of 1995, Les Hamasaki, President of SUN Utility Network, Inc. initiated Project Green Haiti in an effort to introduce solar thermal vacuum tube technology for solar medical autoclave system to sterilize medical instruments for a clinic in Port-au-Prince and for a hospital in Mombin-Croehu, a remote hospital.  The project was funded through the Medical Benevolence Foundation in Houston, Texas.   

Mr. Hamasaki joined a team of volunteers made up of Dr. Hank Watt, medical doctor and solar medical autoclave innovator Khanh Dinh to install the systems in Haiti with the help of local solar contractors. Solar photovoltaic systems were providing electricity to both of these facilities.  According to recent reports, the solar medical autoclaves were still operating to sterilize medical instruments used for operations. 

Top:  Solar Autoclave on clinic in Port-au-Prince and Mombin-Croehu Hospital;
Middle: Solar vacuum tube panels on Hospital and Khanh Dinh’s medical autoclave;
Bottom:  Dental Clinic in Mombin-Croehu with Dr. Hank Watt in background, and Mobile medical autoclave that was sent to Malawi.

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