P.E.T is an acronym for Personal Energy Transportation.
The PET Project for Cuba is a collaborative initiative between the St. Augustine Friendship Association and PET-Florida, an ecumenical ministry under the Special Projects Division of the United Methodist Rural Fellowship.
In October 2003 the Friendship Association delivered the first two PETS to the Baracoan Asociación Cubana de Limitados Físico Motores (ACLIFIM), the Cuban Association of the handicapped, a non-governmental organization that is run by and for the handicapped.
In January 2004, 20 additional PETS were delivered for distribution to 16 rural sites around Baracoa.
Beginning in July 2006, we started delivering spare parts to the Province of Guantanamo.
The Friendship Association tried unsuccessfully to help ACLIFIM establish a workshop in Baracoa that would manufacture PETS in Cuba. PET-Florida had agreed to provide technical expertise as well as parts that might be difficult to find.
