Objectives

Clean water is the source of life and sustainable development cannot exist without clean water. The ability to have access to clean drinking water is vital and contaminated water jeopardizes both the physical and social health of people. In Haiti, the lack of potable water is a major problem. Nearly 80% of the population does not have access to potable water. Even if there is adequate food to consume, families may still be dying from another form of hunger called « invisible hunger » and this comes from drinking contaminated water. Waterborne parisites that are received through using and drinking unsafe water will weaken adults and children alike and they will lack the nourshment and energy thet need to live. In fact, 41% of all deaths of children under the age of five in Haiti die from diarrhea contracted from contaminated drinking water. In both rural and urban communities throughout Haiti, sick children lack the energy to learn and weak men and women lack the strength to work hard and so the poverty continues.

Nothing can change a community more than providing a source for clean drinking water. It creates an overwhelming positive transformation. For the first time, children have the eagerness to learn and men and women have the energy to work harder and provide more income for their families and community. Providing clean water to a community is like giving a blood transfusion to a dying man. Clean water provides new possibilities and a new hope for a better future.

QIFD, in partnership with International Action, will work with designated communities in both rural and urban areas to provide safe, clean drinking water by installing water purification systems that utilizes chlorinated tablets and does not need electricity to work; making it an affordable and effecient way to provide clean drinking water for an entire community.

Implementation

Goals

The goal of this project is to provide safe clean drinking water for both rural and urban communities that QIFD works with.

Identify both rural and urban communtites to install the water purification systems.

Identify plumbers throughout Haiti to install these systems. International Action will provide all of the necessary training to these plumbers on the installation process of these water purification systems.

Installation of water purification systems in the identified communities. Community trainings to ensure proper maintenance of the system.

Beneficiaries

This program will benefit the entire population of communitites that QIFD works with including :

1. Savanette
2. Bombardopolis
3. Cite Soleil
4. Beraud