André COGNAT, white chef of the Antecum Pata, with his wife, a Wayana indian woman. He has devoted his life to help the local populations during the diffcult transition from the indians'primitive way of living, to the western standards. The French state wanted to equip his village with modern solar energy pannels, but this method turned up to be more expensive than using the electricity provided by the capital. The system has been later abandoned.