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Earthquake Relief: Build Latrines in Rural Haiti

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Summary

Help Lambi Fund of Haiti build 880 community latrines for rural communities to meet increasing sanitation needs as people move to the countryside post-earthquake.

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Immense outmigration from Port-au-Prince to rural areas has left rural communities in desperate need of improved sanitation facilities. Some village populations doubled overnight, making latrines an immediate concern in order to maintain a clean environment, decrease the spread of disease and keep drinking water sources clean.

Activities

Help communities build 880 latrines and provide sanitation training to maintain clean environments and promote higher levels of health following the earthquake. These latrines will address the sanitation needs of 1000s moving to rural areas.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $0
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $193,600
Total Funding Goal: $193,600

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Addressing these urgent immediate needs of sanitation will provide a clean environment and improved health for locals, while keeping local drinking water sources clean.

Project Message

Now more than ever, we need latrines in our community. The increase of people living here after the earthquake is greatly stressing our health and environment
- Resident, of Gwomon

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Karen Ashmore

PO Box 18955
Washington, DC 20036
United States
3032043964
Email:

Project Sponsor

Lambi Fund of Haiti

Organization

Lambi Fund of Haiti Logo

Lambi Fund of Haiti
PO Box 18955
Washington, DC 20036
United States
202-833-3713
http://www.lambifund.org

Learn more about Lambi Fund of Haiti and the project team.

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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in HaitiHaiti and can also be found under Disaster RecoveryDisaster Recovery.

For more information about Haiti, read the Human Development Report on Haiti or the Wikipedia entry for Haiti.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on February 9, 2010.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on February 9, 2010

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