NEW DEVELOPMENTS: The Rural Water Project and Violence Prevention

It is May 11th 2015 and One Hundred For Haiti is heading to Haiti to look into expanding The Rural Water Project and accepting full control of it for the future. We have been a supporter to a partner organization in the past but an opportunity has come up which will allow us to keep the project going entirely on our own.

In the past we have paid for tanks to be built which catch natural spring water in areas where cholera infection in the water is a huge threat (the water gathered in these tanks can be treated before it is used by local people. The treatment kills the cholera and prevents unnecessary illness and death. Since the start of the project, cholera deaths in the region have dropped to zero).

One Hundred For Haiti is looking this week into taking on the entire Rural Water Project on as our own and focusing on whatever needs to be done to complete, maintain, and expand the project.

The point of this trip: to meet with local people who can work for One Hundred For Haiti to repair any tanks in need of fixing in the rural areas served so far, and to insure that new tanks are built to provide rural people with safe, clean, water. Tens of thousands of people will have access to clean water as a result of this work.

To make it happen we will need your help.

We will be providing updates from Haiti and will update everyone very soon on how you can spread the word in your community and on your social networks about this critical and life-saving project and help us expand the number of recurring monthly donors in our network who help us achieve our goals of saving lives and serving rural Haitian people. A recurring donation per month of less than the cost of a latte can be incredibly powerful when magnified by similar donations from dozens or hundreds of other people.

In addition to The Rural Water Project, we hope to have word this week about another critically important initiative which we are funding in the south of Haiti to prevent violence against children.

Details on this work will be forthcoming. Child rape has been a huge problem this past year in the south of Haiti and One Hundred For Haiti is funding extensive trainings over the better part of a year in rural communities to educate leaders, parents, community organizers, and local citizens about process and behavior around sexual violence and how to prevent it, support survivors, and how to build stronger communities.

More soon…you are the driver behind this journey. Thank you so much for your ongoing support.