Public-Private Alliance Foundation

When I was first introduced to Public-Private Alliance Foundation (PPAF) about 5 years ago, I was truly impressed by all the amazing works and projects they have been doing in Haiti, Dominican and Madagascar. Listening for the very first time, how David who is the founder of PPAF, passionately talked about the organization vision and their work in Haiti, I was convinced and I have been supporting them and involved ever since.

PPAF focuses on collaborating with other foundation and organization including a University in Haiti to support teaching and fieldwork opportunities on solar cooking and biodigesters for biogas and garden fertilizer in Haiti.

The great thing I love about PPAF is that they use a business approach for poverty alleviation while focusing on renewable energy, public health, and entrepreneurship. They works ties in so well with the current United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

It's an honor and a privilege for me to be part of this great organization.

Eustache

This organization has done fantastic work in Haiti, supporting clean cookstoves and education. The founders work tirelessly to raise funds to tackle the many difficult problems that Haiti faces. A donation to PPAF is always an excellent investment.

PPAF does fantastic work in Haiti, encouraging adoption of clean cookstoves and fuels as well as supporting entrepreneurship. Well worth supporting.

I'm most honored to be associated with PPAF. They do wonderful work with clean cookstoves, helping girls, women, and entrepreneurs utilize health-saving, environmentally safe cooking methods.

Cooking shouldn't be a health hazard. PPAF has been working for clean, safe, affordable cooking in Haiti for many years and knows the issues and challenges. I'm proud to be a board member and happy to support the cause and the organization.

PPAF works tirelessly to implement clean, safe cooking in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. They promote sustainable development with clean-burning cookstoves that provide improved health, support for women and children, environmental protection, and local income-generating livelihoods. This organization deserves our support.

The Public-Private Alliance Foundation is playing a key role in supporting Haiti. This is one of only a few organizations that recognizes the key role that the private sector can play in economic and solcial development. PPAF has brought together the right people and groups from both the public and private sectors to provide efficient, clean, and cost effective cookstoves to those who sorely need them. I was unaware of the dire need for clean cookstoves until I became involved with this foundation.

I have been associated with PPAF for the past few years and thework being done to help women and girl child in low socio economic environments is incredible.
The entire team is dedicated to helping communities improve their living conditions and lead more productive lives .

I have been associated with PPAF for the past 5 years and have been working with my students on projects on clean cooking stoves.
It has been a fabulous experience and my students and colleagues enjoyed working with them . Hope to work on future projects its nice to be apart of the team which makes a difference in the world .

I have been involved in the fabulous and ground breaking work being done by PPAF.
I had the privilege of working alongside one of my colleagues having 2 cohorts of students work on real life capstone projects with PPAF.
PPAFs work ties in so well with the current SDGs and the previous MDGs.
I look forward to working with PPAF on future projects which will have a far reaching positive outcome on improving the lives of many disenfranchised populations.
Mini Murthy MD, MPH

This organization has been working tirelessly to improve the lives of the marginalized and the underserved.

PPAF has spent decades working to improve conditions for people living in third world countries. With a primary focus on health, PPAF is working, in coalitions with other non-profit organizations, to manufacture and distribute cook stoves, both ethanol based and solar cookers, to replace wood burning cook stoves around the world. The indirect impacts of wood burning cook stoves, being deforestation and subsequent erosion, are of equal or greater magnitude.

PPAF has been successful in setting up pilot sites in Haiti to show the available alternative cook stoves, to provide training in their use and demonstrate how using the cook stoves can empower the local women to start local businesses such as bakeries, hot lunch shops and cooked market foods. This in turn improves the family income and provides more opportunities for the family.

The PPAF steps up to the plate as new demands and opportunities are given to it. As part of its continuing effort to replace wood burning stoves in Haiti with sustainable cook-top stoves, it has expanded its efforts of providing ethanol based cook-top stoves to include solar cookers. The solar cookers have been found to provide the indirect benefit of also enabling women to start a small business in their village as local bakers of bread and cakes, or meals for local workers and similar cooking opportunities. This results in a source of income for their family, and a boost to the local village economy.
PPAF is working with local Haitian alcohol producers to encourage the local distilleries to produce the 90 to 95% ethanol to provide a cost effective supply of ethanol for use with the ethanol cook-top stoves.

The PPAF is an organisation that not only wants to do go for people, but wants to involve the people that they benefit, so that they in turn are involved to help others with the same need. The focus of their project is not to hand out a benefit, but to address a need that also solves other social and environmental problems.

PPAF is working with excellent partners to promote sustainable fuel and improved cook stoves
for Haiti. PPAF identified many ways to make ethanol production more efficient and is working to demonstrate that high quality affordable ethanol for cooking can be produced in Haiti using local feed
stock. Wood and wood charcoal are currently used by 1.85 million households (out of 2 million) in Haiti using about 4 million tons of trees. Sustainable yield from current Haitian forest is estimated at .5 million tons. Volunteer time is used to stretch effective use of donations to the maximum extent possible.

The Public Private Alliance Foundation is working to bring cookstove practices which protect human health from lethal indoor smoke, preserve forests, allow women to avoid dangerous wood gathering missions and girls to go to school. Work in Haiti promises to demonstrate the practicality and economic viability of ethanol cookstoves to replace current charcoal based methods.