Just wanted to update you guys on my Haiti trip so far. The situation here is pretty sobering...Lots of people living in ramshackle displaced persons camps in Port-au-Prince and Leogane. The sanitation and water provision sector is woefully weak, and almost every other house looks like it's been bombed.
I'm here with International Action (www.haitiwater.org) to network with other groups in need of clean water and conduct a 6 month assessment of our work thus far. Before the earthquake, International Action provided clean water to over 400,000 Haitians previously exposed to deadly waterborne diseases like cholera, typhoid, and chronic diarrhea. We do this through the installation of simple, easy to maintain gravity fed chlorinators that do not require electricity or have any moving parts. These are attached to public water tanks and tanks in schools, orphanages, hospitals, and clinics. The earthquake destroyed 80 or so of our chlorinators on public water tanks in Port-au-Prince, so we are starting over with new installations and working to rebuild the public water infrastructure.
I've linked some photo galleries for you guys below. The Day 3 gallery is of us inspecting a surviving public water tank and doing household chlorine residual testing in Mont Jolly, Port-au-Prince. The Day 7 gallery is of us installing 2 chlorinators to provide clean water for 13,000 - 19,000 people in Thiotte, Sudest Department, rural Haiti.
Get in touch with me if you are interested in helping put a Haitian kid through a year of school.
Days 1 - 2
http://picasaweb.google.com/tharsis133/Days12Haiti62262310?authkey=Gv1sRgCPKmuvfglrDxAw&feat=directlink
Day 3
http://picasaweb.google.com/tharsis133/Day3Haiti6242010?authkey=Gv1sRgCKa78PDf3MeI9AE&feat=directlink
Day 3 UNICEF Distribution in Delmas
http://picasaweb.google.com/tharsis133/62410Delmas21UNICEFHygieneSuppliesDistribution?authkey=Gv1sRgCITIuJi66LqKeg&feat=directlink
Day 4
http://picasaweb.google.com/tharsis133/20100625?authkey=Gv1sRgCI7lmvvO2qTNCg&feat=directlink
Day 5
http://picasaweb.google.com/tharsis133/20100626?authkey=Gv1sRgCLSB64vy1qqzxgE&feat=directlink
Day 6
http://picasaweb.google.com/tharsis133/20100627?authkey=Gv1sRgCPzN2OS9kqqBPQ&feat=directlink
Day 7
http://picasaweb.google.com/tharsis133/20100628?authkey=Gv1sRgCKinpbSK9uS7FQ&feat=directlink
Day 8
http://picasaweb.google.com/tharsis133/20100629?authkey=Gv1sRgCO6po4b2pq-mag&feat=directlink
Day 9
http://picasaweb.google.com/tharsis133/Day963010IA?authkey=Gv1sRgCL7E7viaqa-_9gE&feat=directlink
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