Why Donate to a 5E Humanitarian Foundation Project?
In travels around the world, one can see that the planet has an extraordinary amount of resources scattered across many beautiful places. There are also areas where extreme poverty makes life very nearly impossible for the human family. Often in these places, basic human necessities are missing like clean safe water, local or stable food supply, sewer management, trash and garbage management. This results in hunger, disease, stifling of business and economics including small businesses like tourism, cottage industries and agriculture. Generally, communities drowning in trash and ground water sewage contamination don’t make favorite tourist places. In these places another key building block for modern economies, affordable stable electrical power is typically missing or spotty. Power not only affects every industry but is critical for food preservation and sales. Fuel for growing crops with mechanical support like tractors and rototillers, transferring goods on trucks, or local fishing, is often also so expensive as to be out of reach of the average family or local businessperson. With the key pieces missing for building economies and good health, society tends to fall farther behind, and lives become more desperate and difficult. Starvation, disease, unemployment, and lack of education result in serious problems for the people, and especially affecting the elderly and young children. In these places not only is the human family in a struggle for survival, the local environments are typically also negatively impacted through plastic trash, toxic emissions from burning trash, ground water contamination, from water passing through trash and sewage. This then negatively impacts everyone and every living thing in the environment.
The 5E system of converting trash/waste into Green Diesel and Sustainable Aviation Fuel with bi products of ultra clean water, stable electricity and zero emissions, are seen by many as a wonderful way to solve both the economic and environmental problems that plague many impoverished communities. If the resource that is needed to make a difference in the amount of food that can be grown is actually diesel to run tractors, or clean drinking water to keep the population from dysentery and other diseases, or a need for stable affordable electrical power, then 5E systems can help that community tremendously by taking a resource that is currently being landfilled or worse dumped in the streets or oceans, and converting it into usable, green fuels and clean water and power.
5E announces the inauguration of the 5E Humanitarian Foundation. This foundation is now open to receive donations for humanitarian (rather than commercial) projects in the world. The 2025 humanitarian projects are now being announced, and donations invited. The Foundation will work toward 501(c)(3) status over the next year.
As starters, 5E has been invited to develop humanitarian projects for Ghana Africa, the Philippines, Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Tonga.
While more information about these proposed projects is described below, we wanted to explain why and how your donation makes a significant difference for these sites today and how a donation today will actually benefit even future sites.
Your donation to one of the 5E humanitarian foundation projects allows the 5E team to buy and assemble an SVR site demonstration module at our cost. SVR (Solar Vaporization Reformer) and supporting equipment for converting trash into green diesel and jet fuel (SAF). The donation is also used to ship the SVR unit to the location where it will then be set up and used. While the demonstration unit is being used, the inputs and outputs are measured for that location and the ground team will confirm how much garbage is available for continual use, as well as determine how much green fuel will be produced and can be used by the community or Sustainable Aviation Fuel produced for export for revenue. From this the 5E team will put together a study and information on what a full-size facility could look like and the economic good it could do. The demonstration site will also be visited by local press, government leaders, especially the ministries of energy, environment, and agriculture. In addition, local and international representatives from US Aid, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, International Monetary Fund and other NGOs will also be invited to see the system at play and be invited to fund the proposed full-size facility, thus multiplying your donation dollars hundreds of thousands of times! The full-size facilities will then start construction based on the available “trash raw materials” and commitment for institutional funding. Once a single facility is set up and running in a region, it is a no brainer for these organizations, who are committed to overcome both poverty and in many cases environmental issues and greenhouse gas emissions, will see the benefits, and the work can spread, bringing both food, water, power, environmental and even economic relief to whole regions, a tool for helping them recover, unbury from trash and thrive!
Vote with your feet! If you have a preference, the site with the highest donation level will go first, and then the next and so forth. Or if you want to donate to all of them select the Everyone option.
Join us in an awesome quest to make the world a better place, ultimately for millions of people!
Current Humanitarian Project Sites
Ghana 🇬🇭 - Dominican Republic 🇩🇴 - Haiti 🇭🇹 - Philippines 🇵🇭 - Tonga 🇹🇴
Each of the projects is designed to turn trash into green diesel and sustainable jet fuel, produce electricity, and clean water. The positive environmental impacts are cleaning up garbage from inside of cities and communities, from beaches, from even landfills, and then producing economic value from that waste stream. Also producing the other two important building blocks of economy and the key building block of health and life being water and electricity.
These facilities are designed to be operated by local people. 5E will offer a training program for potential technicians and operators bringing the potential staff to other operating facilities so they can see how to do it. An ongoing scholarship fund sending potential students to university to study operations and engineering will also be included with each project.
Ghana 🇬🇭
Ghana is one of the thriving countries in West Africa with a pollution approaching 35 million. Despite its fairly robust economy, which many people attribute to a lower rate of corruption than some other countries in the region, Ghana, like many countries in Africa still has significant struggles with many people living in poverty. Approximately 24% of the population or a little over 7 million people are classified in multidimensional poverty.
Our current humanitarian project for Ghana is an initiative on providing technology skids for removing heavy metals, including arsenic and mercury, left over from illegal or unregulated mining operations. These heavy metal compounds have bled into rivers and drinking water from the mine sites. While reverse osmosis (RO) is effective at blocking larger heavy metal compounds, dimethylmercury, the deadliest of the toxic metal compounds, is also small enough to slip through RO membranes. The new 5E technology demonstration skids effectively capture dimethylmercury and all heavy metals efficiently. This technology will be demonstrated and then become part of larger water treatment facilities capable of cleaning millions of gallons of water daily across west Africa.
Beyond water treatment the 5E team is excited about supporting the adoption of 5E Integrated Utility Systems, which not only provide exceptionally clean drinking water, but also turn garbage and sewage into electrical and liquid fuel energy, making a huge positive infrastructure and economic benefit for those communities using them.
And Ghana is near and dear to the hearts of the 5E team. The President of one of our partnering companies, originally did projects in Ghana as part of his business school and would love to go back now that he is nearing the end of his very successful career. One of our young Engineers served in Ghana for two years as a teacher. 5E business and medical consultants have both done projects in Ghana including statistical research as well as hospital support staff. Multiple friends from Ghana both living there now and here in the US are excited about helping. Besides, government interest we have a ground swell of support for taking on trash and converting it to clean water, power, and green diesel to improve the economy and the environment in this amazing country. And with successful projects launched there, your donation doesn’t stop giving. Cabinet members in Benin Africa have also asked if the 5E team can help unbury their country from trash and correct their economic and environmental problems as well. Interest is mounting from Cape Verde and Gold Coast. These projects will quietly change the world of West Africa in wonderful ways for the children of the next generations.
We invite you to donate for changing the world, starting with a positive impact for 7 million people in Ghana and then spreading beyond and into the continent of Africa.
The Philippines 🇵🇭
With a population of more than 115 million, scattered over 2000 inhabited islands, the Philippines are both beautiful and have an incredibly tragic history. Yet the people are for the most part happy and trying to move with the rest of the world into a brighter future. About 15 % of the population is classified as living in poverty, with about 3 million families trapped in this cycle.
“Informal settler families (ISFs) are estimated at 3.7 million, half a million of which are living in slums and high-risk areas in Metro Manila or National Capital Region. Inadequate infrastructure and service delivery such as water, sanitation, transportation, energy, and waste management are evident.” These slum cities are often built on trash piles and are truly epically bad living conditions.
Much of the waste is dumped into bays and washed out to sea contributing to the worldwide plastic contamination of ocean. Land dumped trash tends to “bleed” into the drinking ground water contaminating water for the more settled populations.
One of the reasons for putting 5E systems into the Philippines is that 5E president Johnny Kraczek committed to a friend on a quid pro quo to see if he could help.
“Thomas donated time and worked with my team several years ago when we were working on offshore wind to hydrogen development. He was an air cargo engineer and had flown for years through the Philippines as one of their route stops. Later he ended up marrying his wife who was originally from the Philippines, and they traveled back to see friends and family from time to time and explored more of the islands. He knew we would be able to help so he tried to help us. I told him we would go for it. And over the last several years we have met multiple friends including business developers who have encouraged us to take on starting project into the Philippines. Mayor Greene from Ceder City strongly encouraged us to go for it after telling us about his business units set up there to make a difference for the people. Another business developer who had done significant projects in the Philippines also detailed out how our system could help. We have several family connections with the people as well and are very much looking forward to launching a starting project there. Given enough donation to get started, we have already worked in the past with the Asian Development bank headquartered in the Philippines and we look forward to developing multiple projects with their institutional support once they see the first units.”
Not only will 5E Sun-to-SAF projects help eliminate garbage getting into the oceans, as the Philippines are a major stop for internal flights as well as a huge refueling port for ocean going container ships, the Net Carbon Zero green diesel and the Sustainable Aviation Fuel have an immediate market with very positive carbon footprint impacts for the planet.
Your donation to our 5E Sun-to-SAF Philippines project will have a dramatic impact for good, both for the people and for the global environment.
Haiti 🇭🇹 + the Dominican Republic 🇩🇴
Haiti
Johnny Kraczek shares, “Haiti and the Dominican Republic both share the same large island. The western half was originally ruled by the imperialist French and the Eastern Half by the Spanish. The Christopher Columbus family actually has members buried in the DR.
Haiti has had some very tragic history, after a bloody revolution against the French, the country spiraled into tyranny and then extreme poverty. In recent years several hard earthquakes have severely damaged Port Au Prince the capital. It has the poorest and most struggling economy in all of the Americas. We have friends who have repeatedly asked us to help in Haiti. At the same time in discussions I have had with one of the Cabinet members, he suggested that NGO’s putting their agenda projects into Haiti is not entirely helpful. His theory is that people must figure out a way to generate income and revenue separate from handouts. When money comes in unearned it doesn’t help the country become productive. Personally, I see his concern and think if they had the basic building blocks of stable power, clean water, and the economic benefit of having export products rather than being entirely import dependent, it would go a long way to helping them grow out of their challenges. Again, it looks like the 5E Sun-to-SAF system could help them convert trash and bio waste material into profits, creating jobs, cleaning up the country and the environment. We want to go for it.”
With nearly 12 million people in Haiti, they are close to the population of New York City. Approaching 50% live below the poverty line.
Haiti is the poorest country in the Americas and one of the poorest in the world. The latest official poverty estimated (2012) suggested that over 6 million Haitians lived below the poverty line of US$2.41 per day, and more than 2.5 million fell below the extreme poverty line of US$1.12 per day.
Again, a donation to our 5E Haiti Campaign could make a significant impact for good on one of the poorest countries in the world and a very challenged population.
Dominican Republic
Johnny continues, “And in the DR, I have had the opportunity of meeting with the ministry of environment, ministry of energy, and public works. They were at the time hundreds of thousands of houses short for families wanting to live closer to jobs and work, but infrastructure to support the needed houses, like water, power and sewer were years away from being expanded to the level of being able to support them. Both of the DR and Haiti have garbage and biomaterial waste. We can use this and the 5E system to make a difference in both places.”
The DR also has about 11.5 million people, and that population is growing. About 23% live in poverty. The overall GDP of the DR is 6 times higher than Haiti and the life expectancy is also significantly higher. One reason 5E wants to put a facility into the DR is because of the many connections the 5E team has to the DR on both a government and technical level. A 5E installation in the DR will help them, and act as a beach head for helping establish additional facilities in the DR and then also in Haiti.
Tonga 🇹🇴
Tonga is a small island in the south Pacific. It is one of the first islands on the new side of the dateline, so it’s where the day begins. The country of Tonga is made up of about 150 islands, with significant populations on four or five of them. The largest island, and the capital of Tonga is the island of Tongatapu. Tongatapu has a population of about 80,000 people. All of the electrical power for the main island, and for all of the Tongan Islands for that matter, comes from diesel power generators with some supplemental solar. The supply of diesel comes thousands of miles by tanker from Singapore. Because diesel is a commodity, and the price tends to fluctuate dramatically with speculation on supply and demand, islands like Tonga have wildly variable cost of electricity. While they work to secure long-term purchase contracts, it is still difficult to plan business that is dependent on power, such as hospitality, food, processing, or even cottage industries like sewing.
“When I was in Tonga last, I observed that even some of the schools did not have electric lights but relied on natural light through open windows. Grocery stores were also in the dark, at least portions. And one picture is ever etched in my mind, a family seated on mats in their house, without any electric light, eating around a small oil lamp after the sun had gone down. Obviously doing homework for students can be tricky in the evening. The cost of power also affects, the import business, as meat is typically shipped to the island from New Zealand or elsewhere as frozen. Once it arrives in Tonga, it must be kept frozen or at least refrigerated until sold, but the cost of power can make this both risky to the importer and makes the food very expensive. While it does sound like more of a first world problem then the challenges in Haiti, an estimated 24% of the population lives below the national poverty line, despite a very low unemployment rate, around 2.5%. In meetings with the Previous Prime Minister Dr. Sevetie a few years ago, we discussed ways of improving the economic situation. Clearly having an export product and having some control of diesel for power generation would have a very positive economic effect.
5E and friends from and in Tonga have committed to help. Using the 5E system for Sun and Trash to SAF, paper and cardboard that is currently being landfilled and plastic, which tends to build up on islands, can be converted directly into green diesel with the process itself producing power. Diesel can be used to Supply the power stations in Tonga and transportation for island buses as well as for fishing boats and even cargo ships.
This process basically takes a resource that is currently being thrown away or finding its way into the ocean and converting it into cash on the island. This helps trade deficit, increases economic activity, stabilizes, cost of power, and helps the people build and maintain better jobs and industries.
“As one of the most actively Christian religious countries in the world, I have always enjoyed visiting. Sundays in Tonga are remarkable. Starting at 5 AM, one can hear the choir at Saint Mary’s for their first mass, the Choir from the Anglican church a few blocks away, a little bit later congregations of the church of Jesus Christ of latter-day Saints, singing their hymns in 8 or ten part harmony, while next-door, a Pentecostal, church laying down base guitar, drums, and pop singers amping up their congregations in song that no one could sleep through! And while 95% of the population is attending church there is a marvelous background smell of traditional ground cooking wood fires. Then following church services, people gather with their families in their little communities and feast!
The Sefana family has for many years now run recycling for Tongatapu. Their model has been shared with islands across the Pacific. The family puts three recycling bins or more in each village. One for plastic. One for paper and cardboard. And one for metal cans. Weekly or more often if required, a truck comes by to pick up the recycling materials. These are carefully weighed, and then cash is dispersed to the matriarch of the village based on the weight of recycling materials. The matriarch then uses the money to buy the children something. Maybe a soccer ball or a new book. Or if there are other needs like a family or medical needs, she may apply those funds to whatever the village needs is highest. She encourages the children that while they are out and about bring any escaped plastic cardboard or metal to the bins because that keeps the revenue flowing. The recycled materials are then compressed into shipping containers and shipped back to China. The revenue cycle continues. Economically the system is self-sustaining and provides incentives for cleaning up. Unfortunately, for the most part, China has stopped buying recycled plastics from others, and now for many islands, plastics, cardboards, and even metal cans end up going to landfill. Or worse, “accidentally” get washed out to sea.
5E can help. Your donation will go to funding, a test SVR unit. This unit will then be shipped to Tonga. It will be used to break down the hydrocarbons in paper and plastic using solar energy. This process is so hot that it creates syn gas, which will then be converted into green diesel and jet fuel.
After deploying the test module in Tonga and recording the data from it, then our engineering team can finish sizing the rest of the facility to match the amount of paper and plastic trash that they would like to convert to diesel rather than go to landfill. Using the test unit as a demonstration unit, and showing the plans to, the world bank, the Asian development bank, and the IMF, the facility can be funded and equipment, procured, and installed. And immediately, both environmental and economic factors are improved for the people of Tonga
This Donation is used to develop and deploy technology for turning waste into green energy and fuel. Funds donated will be used strategically for 5E humanitarian projects. 5E Foundation is not yet 5013C therefore donations are not yet tax deductible.