The Bohoc LaJeune area has recently been offered the technical help in establishing an electrical cooperative and bringing electricity to the area. Yesterday afternoon there was a community meeting in the yard of the local National Elementary School. Met Jean Jean Mompremier introduced the electricity committee which has been established and of which I am a member for a while. He then explained how the project came to be offered to the community and what was already available for the project.
This is Fr Zache Hilaire explaining about cooperatives. Fr Zache has been working with the Electrical Coop in Pignon that is going to be helping the Bohoc LaJeune area. He has been trained by the National Counsel on Cooperatives here in Haiti. He did a great job explaining what would be necessary for the Bohoc LaJeune area to establish an electrical coop.
After all the explanations and all the questions were answered for all the people, there was a census to get an idea how many people in which areas would be interested in having electricity come to their homes. The group of men to the right (including the man with the red hat and the man with the brown check shirt) are all heads of households in Bohoc. They are clustered around me as I take their names, number of people in their home, where the house is located in Bohoc and how much they currently spend on kerosene and batteries. 
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