Sunday morning in the predawn light I drove over the causeway from St. Simons Island, Georgia headed for the Jacksonville airport and my eventual destination of Mirebalais, Haiti. This trip came about pretty quickly when WWR had been contacted by PBS’s Newshour and told that they would be in Mirebalais for a few days and …
Lessons from a Napping Goat-By Project Manager, Dan Nolan I received a frantic call the other day from Wilson, one of our maintenance leaders from the project site El Campo in Juancho, Dominican Republic. He was concerned because the drinking station we recently installed had two broken spigots. Apparently, a goat decided to take his …
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.
As the Executive Director of World Water Relief, I am very proud of our in-country team and the work they are accomplishing in the Dominican Republic and Haiti. I just returned from a visit to our projects in the Dominican Republic with Board members, Clay Sparrow and Ben Seidl, volunteer Vanitha Sivarajan and my husband, …
Global Soap Projects Plant Manager Eric Guthrie with World Water Relief Board Members; Clay Sparrow and Lee Burleson, and WWR project Manager Paul Byars on tour of plant. Global Soap donated 12,000 bars of soap to World Water Relief for schools in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. “Hotel soap that was …
May 20th: So, it’s officially monsoon season here in the DR. The past week it hasn’t stopped raining. I never knew riding a motorcycle in the rain would be so difficult. Electricity is far-gone and we have been adapting to a slower pace of life. However, one of our highlights this last week was to …
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 …
April 26th: Tonight, we visited with the Barahona Rotary Club. They are a very lively group who know much of Barahona’s history, the Rotary projects that have succeeded, and what needs to be done in the surrounding Bateys to return this sector of the Island back to its glory days. Or, as they put it, …
April 23rd: Semana Santa has arrived with full force (and 24 hour electricity). Dominicans from Santo Domingo, and the interior, are flooding the coastal towns and rural beaches–just like the ones situated around where we stay in Arroyo. Families have traveled far, looking forward to spending Holy Week together and eating the occasional plate of …
April 15, 2011 Today we spent the day checking prices around the local ferreterias/hardware stores. Some thick, sugary Dominican coffee has given us an extra kick as we compared prices all over town. We are trying to get a handle on materials for our installation in June—mostly estimates for PVC piping, tanks, and pumps. These …