News from Haiti: May 2009

Seven Chlorinators Installed in One Week-end!

During the week-end of April 24 & 25, our staff in Haiti installed 7 new chlorinators in the city of Petit-Goâve located in the south of Port-au-Prince.

The first and most important installation was made up on top of a public water tank of the municipality of Petit-Goâve. The population used to complain about the quality of the water distributed in the city. Children died of diarrhea, typhoid, malaria, etc... This reservoir now serves over 25,000 residents with clean safe water.

Three small chlorinators are now serving the Petit-Goâve Sisters of Wisdom School. Like the one in Carrefour, the school welcomes girls from 1st to 12th grade, and also has a professional training school. In addition to the 737 students, the chlorinators will provide clean drinking water to the congregation of sisters who had never trusted the water before.

Three other chlorinators were installed in a school directed by a congregation of brothers. 780 students also attending grade 1 through 12 now have access to clean water for the first time at school. In the vicarage, priests and students followed a demonstration on the control of the quality of water and a small team including one student has volunteered to regularly make the quality of checks.

Next month, our team will install 3 additional chlorinators on the rest of the city's public water stations and one in the largest high school of the region, Le Lycée d'Etat.

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