Students at Mother McAuley High School on Chicago’s Southwest side are nearing completion of a biodiesel processor for a village in Haiti.
Dr. Roz Iasillo says the processor was built to provide electricity for an elementary school and will produce nearly 48 gallons of biodiesel fuel.
IASILLO: With any development in developing countries it’s the small scale projects that are the most successful. So we see this as, you know, providing them the opportunity to run a small scale, micro lending type of process, where they can kind of jump start their economy.
McAuley partnered with students from Dolton’s Thornridge High School in building the $3,000 project. Iasillo says plans had called for the processor to be shipped in April but the earthquake has put those plans on hold.
Additional information about the project can be found here:
http://mmcoperationhaiti.tripod.com/
On YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/mmcoperationhaiti
