Nine months after its devastating earthquake, Haiti’s water infrastructure is still broken. Every municipality on the island remains challenged to provide safe water to its people. Sanitation has improved little, and water-borne disease is rampant. Now with over 2 million people staying in overpopulated and often makeshift temporary settlements, access to safe water or sanitation facilities remains a pressing need. We are still on the ground in Haiti addressing this need. With your help, LGF and its local partners are delivering water purification units directly to where they can make the most difference, and continue to do so for years to come.

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We met Haiti Partners‘ co-Director John Engle in Port-au-Prince not long after the quake, and learnt about the amazing work that they have been doing in the region for some years now.

Their mission statement is simple- ‘Helping Haitians change Haiti’, and they have been succeeding through many initiatives, including the support of some seven schools in various locations around the country.

We made the decision to support their efforts by providing a water purification system for one of their schools, the IMN Community School, which was located at the very epicenter of the earthquake.

The direct cost of this project is only $8000, which will provide the entire school with safe water for over a decade. Haiti Partners have raised US $5,000 already, please help us raise the remaining US $3,000.

What we have achieved so far:

Project: Marigot

In partnership with Providence Haiti Outreach, LifeGivingForce installed an LGF RAPID RESPONSE 10,000UF water purification system to directly support a school of over 350 children.

Located on the south coast, Marigot still felt the devastating effects of the Jan 12th earthquake, as the local water supply in was severely contaminated and the population was forced to rely upon bottled water. Until very recently, approximately 20% of the children at the school suffered from dysentery and were not attending due to drinking from contaminated water sources.

The LGF RAPID RESPONSE 10,000UF system was installed at the school in the end of April and is now providing clean, safe water for all the children. This has resulted in healthy children, who are now being able to attend classes on a regular basis.

Special thanks to Providence Haiti Outreach for their continued love and support of the St. Dominque school in Marigot.

Project: Les Cayes

LifeGivingForce, in partnership with The Go Project and ESMI, made field installations of our water purification units to support over 500 orphans and residents of the village of Les Cayes, Haiti. These highly portable installations are up and running in just 10 minutes, immediately purifying the dirty water hand pumped from underground wells. In Les Cayes we installed an LGF RAPID RESPONSE 10,000UF system which can purify enough water per day to give each and every child in the community clean and healthy water. That equates to happier and healthier kids and increased attendance levels at school! Needless to say, we are pleased.

Project: Borgne

LifeGivingForce in partnership with H.O.P.E. Haiti (Haiti Outreach Pwoje Espwa) we installed an LGF Rapid Response 10000UF system at a secured public fountain in the Northern town of Borgne. H.O.P.E. Haiti is a not-for-profit, volunteer organization based in Rochester, New York, who’s sole focus for the last 14 years has been to assist the people of Borgne in achieving equitable, just and sustainable living conditions.

Like most of Haiti, Borgne faces extreme poverty and its consequences. Much of this primarily rural population lacks the basic health care, clean water, sanitation, infrastructure and education considered commonplace in the Western Hemisphere. A history of political and economic misfortunes has sapped its ability to lift itself from its conditions without support.

Providing Community Support at the Source

To support H.O.P.E Haiti’s efforts in fulfilling their mission in Borgne, LifeGivingForce Foundation donated one of our portable suitcase size units, the RR 10000UF, to the community. Local people come from near and far to this fountain, one of the only sources of safe water for miles, and as a result it has become a community hub. Local craftspeople and local food vendors congregate around the fountain, children play, and people talk about their lives with each other. A member of the local community has been awarded the job of overseeing the system’s daily operation, and the community as a whole with oversight from the local hospital (ASB Clinic) is responsible for its maintenance.

Dr. Voltaire, Director of the ASB Clinic in Borgne said:

“This system generously donated by our partners LifeGivingForce, serves the population of Fond La Grange and the town of Borgne. People coming from elsewhere also stop by to get clean water, especially those from the remote areas. Since a significant percentage of illnesses in the area are associated with unclean water such as parasitic infections, cholera, typhoid- the system will definitely help decrease the incidence of these problems. We are grateful to those who made this possible.”

Project: Côtes-de-Fer

LifeGivingForce, in partnership with ACDI/VOCA (Agricultural Cooperative Development International/Volunteers in Overseas Cooperative Assistance), a private, nonprofit organization that promotes broad-based economic growth and the development of civil society in emerging democracies and developing countries, deployed an LGF RAPID RESPONSE 10,000UF system in the Haitian municipality of Côtes-de-Fer.

Côtes-de-Fer is an extremely remote community, and for quite a long time there has been little to no access to clean, safe drinking water. LGF, Seeking partners on the ground after the earthquake, contacted ACDI/VOCA which is active in the Côtes-de-Fer region. Jay Slough, COO of LGF, then travelled to the village of Jacmel and trained ACDI/VOCA’s local staff in how to operate the LGF RAPID RESPONSE 10,000UF unit for deployment in the region.

The filter was initially installed in one of the one of the many villages in Côtes-de-Fer, and the effects were felt immediately as people in the community heard about the system and actually ran to get their very first drink of clean water in months. The 10,000UF unit is now being used as a mobile water purification system in numerous clinics in the Côtes-de-Fer region, helping bring clean water to thousands of people. Special thanks to Emmet Murphy, Chief of Party, ACDI/VOCA.

Saving Lives

At LifeGivingForce we are committed to do everything in our power to provide state-of-the-art sustainable water solutions to the people who need it most, and to stick around long enough to make sure the flow of safe water lasts and lasts.

We have real solutions, and lots of experience implementing them on the ground, but need your help to make this happen. Help us save a Life by Giving today.