Featured in Turkey – 04-2014

A sunny future

Haiti: The international childcare efforts of NPH have alleviated the suffering of thousands of Haitian children and families. Their incredible work has been supported and augmented by a recent solar PV energy program, as Willi Ernst of the Biohaus Foundation for Environment and Justice explains.

Haiti is the poorest country in the Western world, where 80% of its 10 million inhabitants live below the poverty line, and 54% exist in ‘extreme poverty’ – surviving on less than one euro per day. The situation is particularly dire for children: one child in five in Haiti is undernourished, and one in 11 …

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