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Through the Children’s Power Project, BUSTAN will address the needs of disabled children lacking access to electricity necessary to power medical equipment. BUSTAN will invest project money 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. Loaned medical equipment will be 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.

The Children's Power Project is designed to work with citizens that fall through multilayered cracks in the social welfare and free-market system. As part of our continued struggle for fair access to public amenities for all of Israel's citizens, we continue this project.

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, its operation and expansion. 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 – in addition to periodic monitoring and verification reports regarding the projects and its implementation. Most of the revenue from the credit sale will be transferred directly to the project management, and will be used for its operation.

Total Carbon Credit for sale – 1515 tons/5 years

Carbon Credit Price – 15.00$ ton CO2eq

Participating Parties

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. The company has successfully implemented the largest Israeli solar project in the Village of Derijat.

Developing values of environmental-social justice are core values of the Heschel Center for Environmental Learning & Leadership in Tel-Aviv. The Center has recently launched its Good Energy Initiative for practical GHG reduction projects, focusing on additional social side-benefits. The GEI calculates, certifies and markets the project’s carbon credit.

We firmly believe that we are heading towards a viable sustainable long-term project that reaps fruit right from the first day – in order to advance the social, economical and environmental well-being of the unrecognized settlement inhabitants in the Negev.

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