The Children’s Power Project
Circulating Solar-Powered Medical Equipment to Children in Need
The Children’s Power Project addresses the needs of disabled children lacking access to electricity necessary to power medical equipment. The money is invested in assorted solar-powered equipment - to refrigerate medications, power oxygen machines, and heat the homes of premature babies -- and circulate it throughout villages remote from roads, public transportation, and health services.
Social benefits
The Children's Power Project is designed to work with citizens that fall through multilayered cracks in the social welfare and free-market system. Loaned medical equipment is accompanied by a series of public workshops on safe waste management, environmental damage, the ideal uses of healthy environmental technologies for medical purposes, as well as the income-generating entrepreneurial possibilities of environmental technologies for supporting the medical needs of disabled children.
Reduction of Greenhouse Gases
Replacing diesel powered generators with solar systems helps curb both local air-pollution and global greenhouse gases build up. This reduction is translated into “Carbon Credits” that are sold on the voluntary carbon market, and help fund the project. Project figures show a 303 ton/CO2 reduction per year according to the guidelines issued by the World Resource Institute for GHG reducing projects. Baseline adjustments include “empty days” in which the solar systems are not operation because they are being moved, technical malfunctions and times when the larger clan-generators operate and eliminate the technical need for additional solar power.
Carbon Offsetting Costs and Figures
The Carbon Credits generated through the Children's Power Project are criticized and certified by an independent third party, and marketed by the Good Energy Initiative. Credit purchasers will receive an offsetting certification and credit ownership. Most of the revenue from the credit sale are transferred directly to the project management by BUSTAN, and are used for its operation.
Carbon Credit Price –$20.00 per ton CO2eq
The Children's Power Project was developed in cooperation of Bustan and Interdan LTD.
Bustan is an NGO promoting social-environmental cooperation between Jews and Arabs that specializes in improving living conditions and social equity for the Bedouins in the Negev. Bustan launched and constructed the famous eco-clinic in the village of Wadi-El Na’am in 2003.
Interdan LTD. is a renewable energy contractor and integrator. Interdan has over 20 years of field experience in solar energy and in rural solar electrification.
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