By Dixie Bickel | Director
For the last few months, we had rain daily which helped fill our cisterns with water. All new buildings at GLA have large holding cisterns for the water that comes off the roofs during the rainy season. You would be surprised at the amount of water you can collect from a two hour rain! Hopefully as we build more water cisterns, we will have to buy less water for drinking and bathing.
Unfortunately, the rainy season is mostly finished for now. We still receive occasional rain but not daily like we were getting last month. In the Caribbean during hurricaine season which is April through October, we can get rain any day but usually April and May and September and October are the main months for rain.
Because we were able to save more water during April and May, the children were able to have pool days on the balcony and find some relief from the high Caribbean temperatures. The children love to splash and get wet all over. Even when bathing, most times the children take baths out of small buckets, so getting in a small blow-up swimming pool is a huge treat to them!
Thank you so much for supporting the Clean Water for Haitian Orphans Project. Without your help, clean water for the children would be difficult to provide.
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