Opening ceremony:

The audience:

Folkloric musik played by a mixed youth group from Haiti and Dominican Republik gave the workshop a special political note.

Cultural accompany by a binational youth musjk group	The audience in a room of the town hall	The audience watching the oil extraction by the handpress

The presentations: (The presentations can be seen or downloaded by clicking on the name)

Frantz Flambert	Orlando Casado	Geraldo Ehlert

Demonstation of oil extraction with hand press:

Demonstation of soap production:

Herz & Henning mixing soap	Mr. Herz pouring soap into mould	Just before cutting the soap into pieces

Demonstration of the use of the oil for lighting:

The bagani Binga lamp	The Ines light of Artibonito	The Ines light above water

Demonstration of the use of the oil in a cooker:

Demonstration of the use of the oil as fuel in a generator set and a VW-bus, which were adapted to plant oil as fuel by ELSBETT company:

Kubota 6 kW Generator set	The generator (Mitsubishi) for the GTZ office in Pedro Santana	The owner and the consultant before the converted VW

Demonstration of the maintenance (pruning) of Jatropha plants for improved seed production:

6-months old Jatropha plant, without any ramifications

The branch (shoot) is cut about 20 cm above ground

The stem of a plant directly after cutting

New shoots are developed already 5 days after pruning

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last modification:  15.12.06