Author Archives: Bobbi

Clean Water Kiosk Roche-a-Bateau

LGF recently completed work at a new clean water kiosk in the South East Department of Haiti. We are proud to partner with the Gaskov Foundation on this great project, the first clean water kiosk in the entire region. Prior the locals had to travel up to 40 minutes by car to collect water. We […]

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NAVFAC/CSS Emergency Response Centers-Gonaives & Desdunes

LGF just completed installing clean water solutions at two of the CSS sites in Gonaives and Desdunes. Our clean water systems are now being used to provide clean water to community cluster including a medical clinic, school and community center in the town of Desdunes. In nearby Gonaives, the system is providing clean water to […]

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Agape Orphanage in Port-au-Prince

Life Giving Force has designed and built our very own low tech manual UV water purification system. Thanks to our partners, Octo-trade Japan, we installed our very first system in the La Main Tendre Agape Orphanage in Port-au-Prince just last week. Prior to the earthquake, La Main Tendre Orphanage housed all of its children in […]

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Partners in Health project in Petite Riviere

LifeGivingForce have had a very busy few months. Here is a photo of our clean water system being installed at the Partners in Health hospital in Petite Riviere. The PIH team are very grateful for the new system. It is being put to good use in this very busy hospital. Thanks to our partners, UN […]

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Divining a Solution

Providing clean water to earthquake-ravaged Haiti is no simple task, but Bobbi Dunphy is spearheading a vital ‘profit for purpose’ initiative that will not only provide advanced water purification technologies but will also help Haitians get back on their feet. When the hyperkinetic Bobbi Dunphy is asked why she spends so much of her energy […]

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Tropical Storm Isaac sparks fears of more cholera deaths in Haiti

JACMEL, Haiti — The panic began to set in after Tropical Storm Isaac’s rains had subsided and the sun finally began to shine on this storm-damaged beachfront hamlet. Frantz Pierre-Louis, looking at the trail of fallen trees and flooded farms confronting him, had something much more pressing on his mind. “We have to prevent a […]

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Haiti Unprepared in the Face of Resurgent Cholera

PORT-AU-PRINCE, MAY 9, 2012—Cholera cases are on the rise in Haiti following the onset of the rainy season, and the country is not adequately prepared to combat the deadly disease, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today. While Haiti’s Ministry of Health and Populations claims to be in control […]

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LGF Haiti Installs Water Filtration System in Jacmel Prison

From the original article published in French on MINUSTAH’s official website: http://minustah.org/?p=34018 Since early Feburary, an apparatus for treating water by ultra filtration (UF) has been in operation at the Jacmel prison in the Southeast Department. Its installation was funded by the Community Violence Reduction (CVR) Section of MINUSTAH, and implemented by the NGO Life Giving […]

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Notes from a Haitian Neophyte

An oil covered reveler celebrating Carnaval in Jacmel, Haiti This place is crazy. And it was just Carnaval. So multiply by that x 100. It’s loud, dusty, dirty, unorganized, under resourced, over priced, confusing, dangerous, beautiful, luring and despite it’s chequered history, completely full of life. The kind of zest that is difficult to find […]

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LGF Haiti partners with Sean Penn’s organization J/P HRO to bring Clean Water to College in Delmas 32

LGF Haiti recently completed another clean water project in conjunction with Sean Penn’s organization, J/P HRO, at the College Toussaint Louverture in Delmas 32, Port au Prince. Managed by our partners J/P HRO, this pilot project is part of The Helping People Home Initiative which aims to relocate families back to their neighborhoods from the IDP camp […]

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