By: Steffani Fields; World Water Relief Program Manager The day began as it often does on the southwest coast of the Dominican Republic with a brilliant sunrise over the Caribbean, promising another warm and breezy February day. I left my house in San Rafael and drove the WWR truck south to Los Patos, where Yesenia …
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 …
Earlier this summer, Yesenia Perez, our hygiene education instructor, and I attended a weeklong water education course taught by CaribbeanSEA’s Maria Cooksey and was sponsored by EGE Haina. This class featured several students from Batey Cuchilla (where WWR has installed a WASH in Schools project), teachers and school directors from the local community. Over the course …
The Plaisance WASH project involves three separate schools that share a common well: St. Vincent de Paul, Pere Periare, and Notre Dame. Prior to the installation of the systems, the schoolchildren often had to bring drinking water from home or drink improperly treated water at school. Lunch at school was made with untreated water from …
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, …
Working and living in Haiti over the past year has made me realize a truism — the most common illnesses are indeed the most common. Although events, such as the current Ebola outbreak in Uganda, can be shocking, the heaviest costs on society still remain common illnesses, such as diarrhea, that arise from unfulfilled basic needs. …
World Water Relief Board members Bronwyn Morgan and Kevin Crump accept a donation of $20,000 from the Primerica African American Leadership Council to support WASH in schools in Haiti.
By Rowen Jin As a small town located off the National Highway in Haiti, Plaisance is a gathering center for many rural villages and districts. Life begins at seven each morning: school children cross the plaza in laughing cohorts and women begin setting up little fruit stands next to the main road. Greener than most …
By Rowen Jin When I asked Pam, a member of our sponsoring St Francis missionary group for the WASH project in Plaisance, how she knows what she does is making a difference in Plaisance. She answered, “We watch for the small changes and we are grateful for them.” Pam has been involved with WASH issues …
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 …