Newsletter: February 2009

This week Dalebrun Esther and his plumber team finished installing two chlorinators in the community of "Les Soeurs de la Sagesse" in Carrefour. The two chlorinators are giving clean water to a church congregation, an elementary school, a professional school, and residents in the hills around the church.

The community was started by the "Sisters of Wisdom" in 1968, attracting a large congregation to their church and regularly hosting conferences and retreats for Catholics from all over Haiti.

Carrefour is the third largest city in Haiti and is on the western border of Port-au-Prince. It's a port, a one-time tourist center, and home to a 5-star hotel, L'Auberge du Quebec. Roads through Carrefour reach the southern and western districts of the country.

The Sisters built an elementary school in 1977, and now 305 girls attend first through sixth grade there. The school children benefit from the chlorine we supply, as do many residents of the surrounding hilly region. The Sisters encourage these neighbors to fetch clean water from the new water tanks in the community.

The 20 Catholic Sisters also run a professional training program in textiles and art. Our contact with the Sisters is Sister Marie-Michèle who contacted Dalebrun for chlorinators.

Members of the congregation pause around the new chlorinator with Dalebrun Esther, Director in Haiti, and Sister Marie-Michèle.

Young women in one of the professional school's classrooms.

Girls playing in their playground after school.

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