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.Clean Drinkable Water The lack of drinkable water in Haiti is a major health
problem. Typhoid epidemics and infant mortality from diarrhea
are often directly related to the poor quality of drinking water on
the island. The majority of our community development projects in
Haiti are assisting the people to provide low-cost, low-maintenance and sustainable sources of
drinkable water. We do this by drilling wells, capping
springs, and installing pumps on gravity-fed systems.
Quality Education
Fifty percent
of the men, women, and children of Haiti can't read and write.
Schools are well attended, but few in number, and about 90% of them
are private and not affordable by many people. Public schools offer
families the opportunity to send their children to school at a much
reduced cost. Haiti Outreach works with communities and the
national government to create viable public schools and raises money
to help build them, as the national government does not have to
money to do that. It can cost $130,000 - $150,000 to build a basic
concrete public school building.
Projects
Click on any of the blue links
to see pictures of the projects
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Well Drilling 2001-2007 |
Over 100 successful wells were have been drilled, each
well is now serving 200-2000 people. |
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Bohoc 1998-2000 |
Capped a major spring and buried 35,000 feet of pipe at Bohac, La
Jeune and Gran Latanye. Built
2 large cisterns of
30,000 gallons each, installed 2 ram pumps, and 14 fountains.
This now serves 8,000 people. |
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La Bruyere 2000 |
Capped spring and buried 7,000 feet of pipe, built a 15,000
gallons cistern, 10 fountains. This now serves 3,000
people. |
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Wozo 2001 |
Extended water system pipeline from Bohoc system. Buried 2
KM of pipeline, built 2 fountains. This now serves 1,000. |
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Pignon 2001 |
Capped 5 springs,
buried 2,000 feet of pipe, installed 3 ram pumps.
This now serves 10,000 people. |
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Nan Bay |
Cap 2 springs, bury 3,000 feet of pipe down the mountainside and
build 6 fountains. This will serve 1,500. |
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La Jeune 2001 |
Helped fund the building of the Fwa Kretyen School.
Contributed cement, tin, and other building supplies. This
school now serves 300 children. |
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Zeb Ginnen |
Capped spring and built fountain on the mountainside near St.
Raphael. This now serves 500 people. |
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Platon Chen 2002 |
Cap spring and build fountain, bury 200 feet of pipe. This
now serves 300 people. |
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Boukan Carre |
Cap spring and bury 2,000 feet of pipe and build 2 fountains.
This now serves 3,000 people. |
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Marmelade |
Cap spring, bury 2,000 feet of pipe and build 2 fountains.
This now serves 1,000. |
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Dondon (Matador) |
Capped spring and build small fountains, bury 100 feet of pipe.
This will serve 300 people. |
| Pignon |
2005 - Fonkoze Micro-Lending Bank
brought to town which had no bank; now over 4000 accounts and
micro loans over $500,000 with 99%+ payback record. |
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Pignon |
In 2003, supplied funds, some volunteer work to build secondary
school for 600+ students. In 2007, built school addition for 5
additional classrooms plus one for a library and one for a
computer lab. |
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PROJECTS - All Depending on Funding |
- Drilling wells on the
island of La Gonave
- Well drilling, spring
caps in the Central Plateau and elsewhere
- Repair broken pumps,
wells in Pignon area and others that were previously drilled
by other groups and make them community wells according to our
model
- Electrify Pignon
Secondary School for Computer Lab, Computers for Computer Lab
and French, Creole books for library
- Public Secondary
School - town of La Victoire
- Public Secondary
School - town of Ranquitte
- 8 other public
secondary schools in Central Plateau
- Post-Secondary Public
Technical School in Pignon/La Victoire/Ranquitte area
- School desks and
blackboards for all public schools being built
- Homes for needy
families that the communities select
- Additional branches of
Fonkoze micro-lending bank
- Purchase or obtain
donated diesel pick up truck(s)
- Purchase container of
well parts
- Purchase 4 wheeler(s)
- Purchase motorcycles
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If you would like more information on how you can help our
efforts please use our
request
information form, send us an
e-mail, or call
612-929-1122.
If you would like to make a donation please visit our
"Give Your Support"
page.
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