Fight childhood disease with safe drinking water

by Agua Pura Para El Pueblo
Fight childhood disease with safe drinking water
Fight childhood disease with safe drinking water
Fight childhood disease with safe drinking water
Fight childhood disease with safe drinking water
Fight childhood disease with safe drinking water
Fight childhood disease with safe drinking water
Fight childhood disease with safe drinking water
Fight childhood disease with safe drinking water
Fight childhood disease with safe drinking water
Fight childhood disease with safe drinking water
Fight childhood disease with safe drinking water
Fight childhood disease with safe drinking water
Fight childhood disease with safe drinking water
Fight childhood disease with safe drinking water
Fight childhood disease with safe drinking water
Fight childhood disease with safe drinking water
Fight childhood disease with safe drinking water
Fight childhood disease with safe drinking water
Fight childhood disease with safe drinking water
Fight childhood disease with safe drinking water
Fight childhood disease with safe drinking water
Fight childhood disease with safe drinking water
Fight childhood disease with safe drinking water
Fight childhood disease with safe drinking water
Fight childhood disease with safe drinking water
Fight childhood disease with safe drinking water

Project Report | Jun 10, 2020
OUR WORK CONTINUES IN HAITI

By Tom Carter and Hovard G. | Executive Director, Agua Pura Para El Pueblo

Taking a water sample from a drinking water puddle
Taking a water sample from a drinking water puddle



Agua Pura partners with organizations to support our work throughout Latin America.  In Haiti, one of our partners is Haiti Compost Business (HCB), founded by one of our students, Hovard G. who studied water and sanitation in the US.  He and teams of young volunteers do water testing and water purification projects in poor communities throughout Haiti helping them to have clean water and sanitation. Agua Pura supports them in their work. Hovard recently started a new project in an especially hard hit community in North East Haiti.  Here is the report he sent telling us about it.

“Haiti’s lack of access to quality sanitation and water has hit most families all over the country. The government does not have a strong plan nor strategies to face those issues that affect millions of people. People who live in rural areas are the most vulnerable because access to the almost basic things are nonexistent.
Haiti is one of the most vulnerable countries in the Caribbean with communities that still face water and sanitation issues. Gradually, things are getting more complicated with lack of water in many regions. Climate change is a big part of that issue. According to the World Bank, between 1990 and 2015, the share of the population with access to potable water decreased from 62% to 52%. Sanitation is also a critical issue; over the same period, access to enhanced sanitation installations only increased by 1% among the poorest in the rural areas. Among the urban poor, it actually declined by 3%.
“Meillac is a poor community in the North East fo Haiti. In this area, the families face a serious lack of water. Sometimes a truck brings water that they can buy to use. For those who cannot afford to buy a bucket of water for 20 HTG are forced to  get their water from polluted sources. A leader in the community explained that there were two wells with manual pumps. The water from the ground is salty. The pumps could not last because the salt from the water caused the pump line to decay faster.”
Meillac is one of the newest communities that we have begun working with. That area confronts serious problems with the lack of access to water. Despite the pandemic covid-19, the HCB team went there and got some samples of different water sources. After analyzing those samples, we quickly made arrangements to bring our support to those people who are in need.”


Hovard and his team organized workshops in the community with the families. They showed the results of their water testing and talked with them about what they should do to keep their families safe.  Families have different preferences so the team offered them different options including AquaTabs (chlorine tablets), chlorine (bleach) and the use of Water Purification Indicators (WAPIs) and trained them in safe use. Hovard and his team also made a commitment to return frequently and continue helping them have safe drinking water.  They also plan to help with covid-19 precautions including hand washing supplies and masks.
Agua Pura, and you- our donors, stand behind Hovard and his volunteers. Together with you we are providing financial support and materials for his work in Meillac and other projects in Haiti. As we have often said, we are all volunteers and 100% of all donated funds goes to support our programs  throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.  We appreciate every dollar you have donated and hope that you will continue to support our work. Can you consider making a modest monthly recurring donation?, it would help us lot with future programs.
Thank you,
Tom Carter

If you want you can write me directly at tom@aguapuraparaelpueblo.org

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talking with community members

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Location: Happy Valley, Oregon - USA
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