New York — 1,400 children under five die each day from causes linked to lack of safe water, sanitation, and hygiene Almost four years after the world met the global target set in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for safe drinking water, and after the UN General Assembly declared that water was a human right, […]
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A New Vision for Haiti
In conjunction with our partners, Digicel, the LGF Haiti team installed another of our LGF UV manual hand pump systems designed and built in Haiti by our all Haitian team at a College Nouvelle Vision school in Cavaillon. The system produces approximately 7500 liters per 12 hour day which can provide 2,500 people per day […]
LGF Haiti installs another LGF UV manual hand pump in school in Muspan with our partners, Happy Hearts Fund
After searching high and low for a water purification system that ticked all the boxes that the Life Giving Force team deemed necessary to meet the specific conditions in Haiti, we set about designing and building one ourselves. Et Voila! The LGF UV manual hand pump system came into being. Not only is it portable, […]
Clean Water Solution for Meds for Kids Food Production Facility
LGF recently installed one of our clean water solutions at Meds for Kids brand new state-of-the-art food production facility in Cap Haitien. Our purification system is providing clean water for the entire facility ensuring that the end product, the amazing Medika Mamba, is top quality and safe for malnourished kids to imbibe. Medika Mamba is […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]