From Tim Douglas, in Haiti helping World Water Relief One question we have continually asked ourselves during this week is –Why now? Doesn’t it seem likely that with Haiti’s lack of plumbing, lack of water, and lack of widespread medical care, an outbreak would have already occurred? WWR has been situated in Mirebalais for more […]
October 26, 2010 12:23 am Mirebalais, Haiti From Dr. Moise Baptiste: (Dr. Mo Baptiste is a Haitian-American Professor at Ithaca College. He is in Haiti and is helping World Water Relief on this project.) I arrived in Haiti on the 21st of October and I knew nothing about the cholera outbreak until my former dissertation […]
Ben Seidl, World Water Relief’s Program Director is in Haiti now and will be blogging regularly on the cholera outbreak. The recent cholera outbreak has brought critical attention to the pressing issues of potable water, sanitation, and hygiene in Haiti. On top of providing clean water and hand washing stations in schools throughout Mirebalais, World […]
World Water Relief is working in the Central Plateau of Haiti in the town of Mirebalais. We have been conducting WASH in Schools programs at the three largest schools in Mirebalais. The WASH to LEARN project started on August 1st and will conclude on November 12th. With a heavy emphasis on hygiene education in the […]
After spending 2 days readjusting to La Hispanola on the east side of the Haiti-Dominican border, Ben Seidl (WWR Project Manager) and Tim Douglas (Project WASH Educator) arrived to the vibrant capital city of Port-au-Prince. Jean Baptiste (Mirebalais Project Manager) had arranged transport to Mirebalais that night, guaranteeing the assembled team a fresh start on […]
Due to the almost non-existent access to internet and intermittent phone service, it has been hard to stay as current with the blogging as I would like, but however late, here is our most recent update: Over the past month World Water Relief has slowly transitioned its focus from immediate emergency relief back to what […]
Days 10-12 After spending the night at the Partners in Health headquarters, we awoke early in the morning and said goodbye to the staff, promising to be back on Thursday with two more units for PIH operations. We jumped into the vehicle and hit the road back to Santo Domingo, a mild nine hours of […]
I’d like to begin this new phase of the blog by stating what a joy and pleasure it has been to work for such a strong, passionate group of people. Over the past three weeks this organization has manned an effort that any normal NGO would need 20 employees to match. And that’s not an […]
We awoke at 2:30 a.m. after one hour of sleep in Barahona. I had been in touch with Josue Cabellos with US AID the evening before, and he informed us that we could cross the border with a UN convoy that was organizing at 5 a.m. and would probably leave at 6 a.m. As we […]
We now have our own channel on YouTube – thank you, Ben! Please visit it, and check out the videos. Download them, share them, tweet about them… Every click, every view, every referral to our YouTube channel and to this site increases public awareness of the dire need for clean water in Haiti – PLEASE […]