The blacktop and gravel road from Port Salut to Tiburon is the infrastructural lifeline of over 120,000 residents who live in the southwestern area of the South Department.
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October flood damage to infrastructure assessed at over US$1 million
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News from the Field
Cleaner Energy in the Côte Sud: Testing institutional stoves in schools
01/16/2012
As part of the Côte Sud Initiative’s institutional stove program, the CSI site team requested fuel efficiency tests on stoves provided by Catholic Relief Services (CRS) to area schools. These stoves were distributed starting 2007 as part of MYAP – the Multi-Year Assistance Program - run by CRS for schools in Haiti’s entire South Department, which includes the CSI area.
Scaling up improved cookstoves in the Côte Sud
12/15/2011
Roughly half of the world’s population burns solid biomass fuels for cooking and heating. Throughout poor, rural areas of the developing world, biomass is the dominant fuel, and cooking is usually performed using a simple three-stone open fire, often in poorly ventilated structures. In Haiti, this dependence on wood and wood-based charcoal has been the country’s reality for decades.
