Haiti Work Teams: There is $ in Haiti's Trash!

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

There is $ in Haiti's Trash!

Haiti's trash headed for ovens in $250M waste-to-energy project Pittsburgh Business Times by Anya Litvak, Reporter Date: Monday, May 7, 2012, 5:05pm EDT Anya Litvak Reporter - Pittsburgh Business Times Email | Twitter International Electric Power LLC will be turning Haitiâ€™s waste to watts in a $250 million project announced today. The Pittsburgh-based company said it signed a 30-year public-private partnership agreement with the Government of Haiti to collect municipal trash from the metropolitan area of Port au Prince and burn it in a 30 megawatt powerplant to generate electricity. The venture is called Project Phoenix and International Electric power is predicting it will create about 1,800 jobs in Haiti. It would not disclose how much money it's investing in the venture. The company expects the financial closing will take place during the fourth quarter of this year. After that, the project partners will set about collecting garbage and building the power plant. Another Pittsburgh company, THREAD (The Haitian Redevelopment Initiative) International, also will be involved, according to International Electric Power. THREAD is planning to build a factory that converts discarded plastic into thread. According to its website, International Electric Power also is working on developing a $60 million wind farm in Haiti with a capacity of 20 megawatts. Itâ€™s been looking for financing for the project since January 2011. The Haitian power plant will be one of the companyâ€™s first generation assets when built.

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Mission Statement

Haiti Work Teams is committed to improving the quality of life for the Haitian people by offering sound construction techniques and assitance in building projects. Projects considered would be schools, clincis, hospitals, solar storage, wells, water storage, septic systems, trash containment and waste removal. In the medical arena, Haiti Work Teams will assist existing medical missions and provide speciality teams in the fields of general medicine, OB-GYN, nutrition, dentistry, and vision care.

Our Beginning in 1980

Steve and Sheila Scheib first visited Haiti in 1980 as part of a construction and medical work team. After several more trips, we were asked to fill in for missionaries, Don and Doris Peavey, while they went on furlough. So, in March of 1988 we returned with our 3 children for a one year commitment at the Ebenezer Glenn Orphange in Marchand Dessalines. The time was a mixed blessing, in that physically the time was exhausting; not enough hours in the day to get everything done that needed to be done; but spiritually, our faith was stretched in ways that only other missionaries could relate to. Growth was obtained through the trials that God allowed to come our way. Our faith grew and our sense of security was in the Savour of the World who had called us to Haiti. When the Peaveys returned the following year, we returned to the states in April of 1989. We have continued over the years to return to Haiti as often as possible.