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Partner for  People and Place

Helping people on the frontline of poverty improve their lives and communities and protect their environment.

PARTNER FOR PEOPLE AND PLACE works with people at the grassroots to solve the problems of poverty.

Partner for People and Place believes sustainable solutions come from joining the entrepreneurship of local people with the ecology of the place where they live. To support that partnership we provide technical resources and facilitate community action. We work from the ground up.

Our current project is JATROPHA PEPINYÈ. Jatropha Pepinyè is a nonprofit Haitian business that grows and sells transplant seedlings of Jatropha curcas for renewable energy, rural economic development, and the re-vegetation of devastated landscapes. The nursery is located in Terrier Rouge in northeastern Haiti on the newly improved Route Nationale.

SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS = PEOPLE + PLACE

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Haiti Project  Jatropha Pepinyè

Hands that hold beans in different colors.

Jatropha curcas is a native plant to Haiti  What is Jatropha?

Jatropha (Jatropha Curcas) is a small tree about the size of a citrus tree, which is native to Haiti and produces non-edible seed oil. While largely unnoticed in Haiti today, its seeds are a high yield source of liquid bio-fuel.

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Events and    News

Earning and Returning

November 06, 2011

JATROFA PEPINYE is knocking on the door of sustainability - we haven't stepped through that door yet, but we're close. We're now making products for sale in Haiti and returning the money to the farmers who grow Jatropha. Acting as a cooperative, JP buys seeds from farmers at a good price, makes products from the seed oil, and sells them in the market - not for export but for use in Haiti. The things we make are things that Haitians need and use and which are otherwise imported into Haiti - like diesel fuel and soap. Locally grown, locally made, and locally consumed. In our way of thinking that is the sustainable way. Every time someone buys one of our bars of soap or uses a gallon of our biodiesel, it's money in the pocket of an independent Haitian farmer. READ THE OCT 2011 NEWSLETTER: CLIMATE AND CASH for more.

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