By Tom Vanderwell | Manager of Partner Relations
One of the things that really shocked me the first time (10 1/2 years ago) that I visited Haiti was the tragedy of clean water. If I was at the orphanage and brushed my teeth with water from the faucet, I could plan on being sick in the bathroom for at least two days.
And that was in a relatively "upper class" area of Haiti.
I couldn't tell you the number of people in Haiti who are sick or die due to water borne illnesses. The last time that I heard the statistics, over 500,000 Haitians had gotten sick from cholera (a water borne illness) with over 7000 deaths - and that's in just over 3 years time.
To say that it's important that we keep the water supply at God's Littlest Angels clean and drinkable would be an understatement. The lives of our kids literally depends on it.
A couple of years ago, a company donated a substantial (aka large) water filtration system. That is doing a great job of filtering all of our water. But we have to bring it in by truck load. And the water we bring in isn't reliably available, is expensive and requires a LOT of filtering to get it clean.
As we are building our new facility, we are putting rain water cisterns under a number of our buildings (the picture is the cistern going in underneath our new school). These will help reduce the cost and increase the availability of water that we can then filter and provide for our children.
Contributions to this effort will provide opportunities for us to help the kids in Haiti and provide them with clean water for a long time.
Thank you for helping!
Tom
By Tom Vanderwell | Manager of Partner Relations
By Tom Vanderwell | Manager of Partner Relations
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