By Zachary Brehmer | Executive Director
We are so close to finishing five, large, long-term water treatment systems. They will provide 16,000 Haitian families with every day access to clean, safe water. The chlorinators are installed. The pumps, water tanks and piping are all installed. The people are ready to finally have affordable, sustainable access to clean, safe water.
A total of $7,060 is needed to complete the project. We are grateful for any donation you can provide to help us finish our work, so these 16,000 families will have long-term access to clean, safe water. If you are unable to support the project financially at this time, sharing this email with at least one other person could help us gain the support we need.
If we had this money today we would be able to finish the project by the end of August, 2015. When we say finish, we mean that project is ready to be completely run by the communities receiving the water treatment systems and the local Rotary Club, who will provide long-term monitoring, accountability, and leadership.
Half of the $7,060 needed will be used to help the communities create a platform to elect their community water committees and then train these committee members. The skills they will receive during these trainings will enable the committee members to operate and maintain the chlorinators and pumps, manage the project funds, and monitor each water treatment system. These water committee members will also be in charge of running the community financial support system, which is vital to the long-term sustainability of the project. Please contact me at zbrehmer@haitiwater.org to talk about this process if you are interested.
The remaining funds will be used to build walls around each of the five chlorinators as the communities want extra security for their new water treatment systems. Improvements to the well lining for two of the newly built wells, providing protection from contamination, will also be completed with these funds.
I will be traveling to Haiti on July 28 to oversee the wall building and continue discussions with Rotary on how to proceed. On the project info page you will find examples of some of the ways you can help us finish this vital project, providing 16,000 Haitian families with long-term access to clean, safe water.
Many thanks
Zach Brehmer
Executive Director of International Action
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