Board Member Dan Phelan and friends (Dan is the one in the middle) send greetings from Manolit, a Batay an hour outside Santa Domingo, Dominican republic. Manolito is the site of a recent Water/Sanitation project dan recently worked on.
Ms. Peoples, Just a note to let you know I did a ”spot check” on WWR’s Batey 7 system. Everything checked out. Seriously, though, I was there to see WWR and First Water working on that first system and have been back there every year since. It is satisfying to see a sustained source of water for that community …
May 23rd: We have continued to work with the local Barahona Rotary Club. There is a pending grant that is being processed. Once we have finalized these details we will be able to begin another WASH in Schools project in the Bateys. On another note, WWR is continually planning for the Mitchell Family’s visit to …
May 12th. After a quick meeting at World Vision with Sola, the Plumbing Engineer, and Roland, a Hygiene Promoter we set out sight on 2 new schools in the Batey area. First, we went to Batey Los Robles, and visited their campus. We were extremely impressed with the care and cleanliness of their sanitation facilities. …
May 10th Today was AWESOME. We met with Sola Miguel Lopez, and engineer suggested to us by World Vision. With his firm handshake, it was obvious we had found a plumber. He, Rolando (a WV Health Promoter), Ben, and I rode out in the heat to Batey Cuchilla on our respective red motorcycles. Again, we …
May 6-8th: I, Tim Douglas, made a 72-hour trip back to the US of A (from the DR). WWR accomplished 2 major goals during this time. The first, was securing another private donor funding (fist pump) for a WASH in Schools program in Batey 4. It will be our third planned Batey Project in the …
April 27th: This morning we reconnected with World Vision at the District Office with Director Emilio Desena, and Community Leader Estevan Cuevas. We are lucky to have 2 months of planning ahead of us, and continuous time in the DR to map out our WASH programming. It hasn’t always been this settled. Estevan takes us …
From Nate Dickey on February 24, 2011 During our work in Haiti earlier this month, Kevin and I accompanied Jean-Jean and his team and watched them provide hygiene and cholera awareness education as well as hand soap to schoolchildren in Mirebalais. It was incredible to see how attentive and engaged these children are with the …