Foundation for life and light

08/11/2017

My Tia in Pnce finally got power back and she is elated. Been down so long it looks like up. Progress is progress even at a snails pace, Maria Ester Fernandez Marti is very pleased. She is tired of COLD showers.

14/10/2017

A big thank you to our partner Crisis Aid Network for their support in Puerto Rico! https://www.facebook.com/CrisisAidNetwork/

Crisis Aid Network is committed to inspiring the helpless via relief efforts both locally and globally.

14/10/2017

WE ARE ON THE MOVE!!!

Our efforts to date have raised over $7500 based on the compassion and heart of kind people! Thank you so much! As the mission continues to progress we have been working closely with a larger nonprofit Crisis Aid Network to create a larger impact. Banding together to spearhead efforts locally, going forward we will be working directly with Crisis Aid Network on the ground in Puerto Rico and Caribbean. Please share our new site

CRISIS AID NETWORK encourages individuals to stand up to the hurricane bullies' destruction by "giving up their lunch money" to emPOWER Caribbean families. With this support, we will provide power, supplies, and food to survivors who have experienced total loss by Hurricane Maria's impact. Our...

03/10/2017

This is a group that I support because they have a plan and will be making an immediate impact. Smart and caring people, looking to serve the community with it's most urgent needs.

03/10/2017

Here is our projected timeline for Foundation of Life and Light to provide power to 500 homes in Puerto Rico by Christmas

Projected Timeline for Operational Milestones

- Sept 22 – Sept 25: Project design scope and surveying of impacted areas (complete)
- Sept 25 – Sept 29: Engineering support and Chief Engineer Identified (complete)
- 2 Oct – 6 Oct: Design parameters for GCSP (in progress)
- 2 Oct – 6 Oct: Vendor sourcing quotes
- 2 Oct – 6 Oct: Computer generated Design Mock up/visual aide
- 30 Oct – 3 Nov: Build first GSCP spec. Test design feasibility and generate final specification
- 6 Nov – 24 Nov: Procure and fabricate 25 GSCP plants for deployment (every two-weeks 25 more plants, dependent on fund raising efforts)
- 4 Dec – 8 Dec: Plant delivery to impacted country
- 4 Dec – 8 Dec: Community communication and site survey
- 11 Dec – 15 Dec: Local plant transport and installation

03/10/2017

We are happy and excited to provide our detailed plan for our "Green Sustainment Plant" effort so that all of our followers will have a better idea of what we have planned for the future

First wave of planned development: 100 “Distributed Green Communities” with semi-transportable prefabricated green sustainable power plants. The initial effort will supply 100 neighborhoods with one “Green Community Sustainment plant (GCSP)” per neighborhood. Each plant is equipped with solar panels for primary power generation to an internal battery storage (Tesla Powerwall) with an emergency diesel generator for emergent power needs. We will deliver the transportable Green Sustainment Plant” in the next three months, in time for Christmas!!!! The generous crowd funding donation efforts will finance the purchase, fabrication and installation of diesel generators, Conex box, solar panels, battery storage and associated equipment.

Phased roll out plan – Phase One
Household participation survey. We will communicate with communities through local civic organizations, (churches, municipalities, shelters, etc) concerning enrollment for the effort. We then plan to enroll households in a community fashion, where five households need to participate together in order to participate. We will evaluate households against criteria for priority installations and ease of installation (pad/level ground availability for generator and wire runs).

Phase Two – Plant fabrication and delivery
Fabrication of Green Community Sustainment Plant (GCSP). We want to bring together existing off the shelf technology to be packaged in a semi-transportable Conex box which will house the generator, battery storage, associated cabling for community install and deployable solar panel arrays. The solar array is installed on and affixed to the Conex box when the GSCP arrives on site. By supporting the solar array on the Conex box we are able to rapidly deploy the plant to impacted areas while bringing to bear a very large solar array to supply the 5 - 6 households. The Conex is then shipped to the distressed area via oceanic transportation and further transported from port side to the distressed neighborhood. The GCSP is distributed via a hub and spoke methodology, each plant is set in a community and supplies multiple homes. Each Green Community Sustainment Plant will supply four to six homes with emergency electric power, enough to power nominal number of household devices. Once delivered to the location phase three begins.

Phase Three – Household installation
Communication with and installation of households to the Green Community Sustainment Plant.
We will communicate with the homeowner concerning the survey and anticipated changes to the home in order to support the Green Community Sustainment Plant. Connecting the household to the new plant will require nominal upgrades to the home’s electric panel in order to insure the safety of the local utility personnel who are working to restore the mainstream electric services.

Phase Four – Merry Christmas
The community is installed with operational electric power. The Green Community Sustainment Plant is providing electric resources to the community. The homeowner is satisfied but our vision isn’t complete. While onsite the home will also be surveyed for the suitability of further solar panel arrays on the household rooftops. This information will be provided to the homeowner for consideration.

Phase Five
Network the Green Community Sustainment Plant into the cloud via application to track electrical power to the grid as well as distribute credits on behalf of distributed communities. We will connect the Green Sustainment Plant for remote operation by government power company to create a diesel farm arrangement for peak power concerns and distributed utility capability. This is a unique capability which upgrades the capability of the local power grid. The addition of the GCSP to the utility management infrastructure provides for a new distributed arrangement while still providing centralized control to the utility.

Phase Six
Green Community Sustainment Plant are turn over. The asset will be turned over to the municipality/government office for incorporation into the utility infrastructure and management plan. A nominal "pay it forward" donation agreement will be provided in order to pay it forward for future relief efforts and to provide more neighborhoods with the same plants.

02/10/2017

This article perfectly describes the vision we have in mind for Puerto Rico, to create a long term sustainable power system that is good for the environment and reliable throughout whatever natural disasters may occur in the future.

In a sun-drenched eco-system, renewable energy would foster incredible opportunity and help protect the island from it's next natural disaster... The ecological and humanitarian destruction of Puerto Rico has left the world aghast. But there is a hopeful green-powered opportunity in this disaster th...

30/09/2017

To put into light the severity of Puerto Rico's complete lack of power, we decided to share an article about the escape of some inmates from the local jails. The crisis of food, water and power is so bad, a few of the inmates turned themselves back in after their brief experience with freedom 😂

English translation:
One of the prisoners did not stand the chaotic situation and voluntarily surrendered
Friday, September 29, 2017 - 11:00 PM
By Bárbara J. Figueroa
(I.e.

20 inmates escaped in the midst of the crisis provoked by Mary (horizontal-x3)
The 13 inmates of the El Zarzal camp (Río Grande, in the photo) escaped from the Bayamón jail. (File / GFR Media)
It turns out that there were not 13, but 20 inmates who escaped from jail after Hurricane Maria passed through Puerto Rico, including an inmate who did not tolerate one day the chaotic situation of the country in the free community and surrendered to the authorities within 24 hours of their flight.

The information was provided to this newspaper by the Secretary of Correction, Erik Rolón, noting that the subject - who did not provide a name - voluntarily came to a barracks to surrender to be put back behind bars.

"Maybe he could not withstand the crisis," Rolón said, referring to the vicissitudes that Puerto Ricans face every day to be able to supply themselves with food, water, gasoline and even to be able to communicate with family and friends after the devastation caused by the hurricane.

On the other hand, he indicated that in addition to the 13 inmates of the El Zarzal (Río Grande) camp that escaped from the Bayamón jail, to where they had been transferred the day after the cyclone, there was a similar incident on Monday, September in the Guerrero prison of Aguadilla.

"That leak occurred at 11:30 p.m.," he added, noting that the powerlessness factor "may have contributed to leakage" as monitoring operates by electrical system. He emphasized, however, that there are correctional guards working in shifts of 12 hours to avoid other emergency situations.

At the moment, 11 were captured from the first group of fugitives thanks to the collaboration of the citizens and relatives of the inmates. The inmates who are still fugitives are Juan Jorge García and Luis Matos.

While the Aguadilla group, still has to capture the defendant Edwin Cuevas Feliciano.

Uno de los reos no aguantó la caótica situación y se entregó voluntariamente

28/09/2017

The Foundation for Life and Light is excited to make a huge announcement soon regarding our fundraiser efforts and progress towards our Christmas deadline to provide 100 communities and 500 homes with our Green community sustainment plants! We will also be posting updates soon for our application process to nominate neighborhoods in Puerto Rico for the opportunity to become Distributed Green Communities with long term sustainable energy through solar paneling.

26/09/2017

Thank you Christopher!!! Your contribution is the needed ingredient to make this Christmas miracle a reality! From all that you have helped and the Foundation for Life and Light team, thank you!

Please join Christopher Doll by supporting my online fundraising campaign on GoFundMe: 'Power Relief for the Caribbean'

26/09/2017

Relief comes in many ways: food, shelter, clothes, and most of all power. With an estimated recovery time of 12 to 18 months for the return of electric power, many people will be unable to return to a normal productive life. Communications, cooking, power tools, refrigerators and fans all require electricity and without these basic resources, the recovery effort for each individual household stalls. Our efforts are focused on providing a combination of short-term relief via diesel generators, and long-term sustainability with hurricane resistant solar panel electric generation via what we have named our “Distributed Green Communities” effort.

Our effort will support the devastated areas from Hurricane Maria and Hurricane Irma. We will strive to provide distributed green communities via neighborhood diesel generators for immediate power needs and hurricane resistant solar panels throughout impacted areas in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. The vision is to meet an immediate need for electric power while providing a long term sustainable resource.

Unfortunately, utility companies will take longer than a year for many areas to receive electrical power and by working together we can fill the gap while building a stronger future.
In the rebuilding of communities, we can provide a solution that not only provides the short-term relief but also catapults the electric grid of the islands into the 21st century.

Join us in impacting the lives of 100 neighborhoods and 500 homes through out the Caribbean. The first wave of planned development will be installed be Dec 2017 in time for Christmas!!!! Through generous crowd funding donation efforts, we will finance the purchase, and installation diesel generators, solar panels, battery storage and associated equipment.

Our effort would include, Puerto Rico, USVI, BVI, Antigua, St. Marteen, Barbados, and Leeward islands. Distributed green energy production and smart grid software tied into the grid with smart battery storage will not only meet today’s needs but also scale with tomorrows challenges. These Distributed Green Communities will be able to rebuild a stronger foundation without recreating the ecological problems of the past and tie into the government efforts locally.

Thank you for your support of our courageous effort. Together with your support, we will build a stronger today and a cleaner tomorrow. Foundation for Life and Light is a 501 (c)(3) status pending nonprofit charity looking to provide sustainable solutions to hard problems. We are equipped with engineering support staff and effective leadership to execute this Christmas miracle.
Thank you for your consideration and efforts. Each One Help One.