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Working Together to leave hunger and poverty behind
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For nearly
30 years, CTI has worked with volunteer engineers and scientists in heart of
the Midwest United States' agricultural belt to create food and water
technologies that relieve hunger and poverty in the developing world. With the
help of supporters and partners around the globe, we are providing meaningful
and lasting solutions for "the bottom billion."
Innovation that can feed the world
Many
African pearl millet farmers struggle to produce enough food to make a living, yet
they lose about half of their harvest using rudimentary processing tools.To
develop innovative new equipment for processing pearl millet, one of the most
widely eaten cereal crops in the developing world, we collaborated with
volunteer scientists and engineers from the USDA, ICRISAT, and the OneLab
Initiative. The result has been a breakthrough technology: the first successful
hand-operated tools for threshing and winnowing the pearl millet. The set of
devices can capture 90% of a farmer's grain, potentially doubling the pearl
millet food supply in some of the most famine-prone regions of the world.
 "Sometimes providing a simple service like a
grinder can transform a community" - Curtis Rogers, NWHCM Community
Development Coordinator
Partnering to deliver solutions for the "Bottom Billion"
After the
devastating earthquake hit Haiti,
CTI's generous donors provided grinders to help feed and employ Haitians. Since
then, we have been helping Feed My Starving Children distribute grinders to
their partner feeding sites throughout Haiti. At Northwest Haiti Christian Mission, CTI grinders have been made available to people in a number of towns,
freeing them from a two to three hour walk to the nearest commercial miller.
With grinders centrally located throughout Haiti, community members have an
opportunity to produce nutritious food for their family or start businesses.
Engaging communities 
Development
can only be sustainable with the participation of local communities. CTI's
culturally appropriate solutions empower locals to take ownership of their
future. In Nicaragua,
where less than half the people have access to clean drinking water, we've
engaged community water groups to help install and maintain dozens of water
chlorination devices in rural communities. By working together, CTI and rural
Nicaraguans are providing clean drinking water for dozens of communities.
Without the
support of CTI's skilled volunteers and generous donors, thousands of families
in rural Nicaragua would be
without clean drinking water and farmers in Mali will continue to lose half of
their livelihoods for lack of simple tools. Together, community by community,
we can end extreme hunger and poverty!
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Support CTI through
United Way
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In
the upcoming weeks you may be asked to participate in your work place's annual United Way
campaign. Did you know that you can designate your United Way donation to go to Compatible
Technology International?
On
the United Way
pledge card, under "My Choice", simply write in:
Compatible Technology
International
800
Transfer Road, Suite 6
St.
Paul, MN
55112
Your support of CTI's mission to help alleviate
global hunger and poverty is more important than ever during these challenging
times. CTI prides itself on efficient
and effective spending with over 80% of all donations directly funding our
projects and programs.
Questions? E-mail Nancy@compatibletechnology.org or call 651-632-3912
Thank you for your
support!
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CTI invited to share its insights with Cargill Employees
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 CTI
and Cargill have worked together for a number of years and have recently
partnered to provide Cargill employees with insights, challenges and hands-on
experience involving CTI's post harvest processes and devices. Former Cargill
executives Ron Christenson, Dick Fulmer and Dr. Murali, along with CTI
volunteers Jorge Fernandez and George Ewing, are helping facilitate several
events with Cargill this fall. CTI will present to the Cargill Technology
Group, hold a grinder assembly challenge with a Horizon Milling volunteer
group, and a presentation and grinder assembly activity for a Leadership
Recognition event which highlights Cargill's contributions toward achieving
global food security. We look forward to continuing and building upon this
valuable relationship.
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Thank you to CTI's local Manufacturers and Suppliers!
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To build
grinders that are robust enough to withstand tough environments, CTI relies on
manufacturers and suppliers in the Twin Cities who generously offer their
skills to help CTI deliver equipment that is exceptional-and yet still
affordable to our end users.
CTI's
superbly manufactured ductile iron burrs form the core of our grinding
technology. The burrs are the metal plates that rub together to accomplish the
actual grinding. Smith Foundry Co, of Minneapolis,
MN casts CTI's burrs into the
precise chemistry and shape necessary for the machining and heat treating
processes to follow.
Obtaining a high quality casting is the first
building block upon which the reputation of our Omega grinder is built. CTI's
partners at Modern Metals Foundry Inc, based in Bloomington, MN,
provide us with three important components that form the bodies for our Omega
VI grinders.
Midtown Manufacturing, based in Minneapolis,
provides machining on CTI's Omega Grinder castings. Contract and short run
machining projects are an integral part of an organization like CTI. We depend on the kindness of all of our manufacturers who
are sensitive to the unique needs of a nonprofit organization with limited
inventory space and fluxuating demands.
Thank you to CTI's manufacturers and suppliers who go above
and beyond to ensure the world's poorest populations have access to
high-quality and reasonably priced grinders!
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