Pure Water's project in Haiti is being implemented with the help of Management Sciences for Health (MSH), a major USAID subcontractor working in more than 30 countries around the world.  MSH plays a major role in Haiti in health services and understands the important relationship between health and safe drinking water.  

PWW and MSH will concentrate on school hygiene training and bio-sand filter programs.  Approximately 450 schools and orphanages and 41 health facilities located in 83 communes (counties) will be targeted by MSH and USAID in Haiti. PWW will also be working with in-country partners in other communes throughout Haiti. The 83 communes include the most impoverished areas in the country.  

The strategy is to use school children as the catalysts to learn how to save lives through water filter/hygiene education.  These children will be receiving clean drinking water and bottles of water to take home and will learn about clean water and good hygiene.  In time, there will be seminars and presentations in the schools on clean water and hygiene so parents can catch up with their children.  The ultimate goal is to spread the filter/hygiene program into homes so that safe water is used for drinking, cooking, and bathing.

Since Haitian children in 80% of the schools attend mission and private schools, PWW is partnering with these mission organizations.  PWW has been working in Haiti; its first project with MSH was scheduled to be for 105 Methodist schools. Other mission and NGO groups are lined up and staffed to begin programs in the schools as soon as the funds are available.

The need is now! PWW is looking for Rotary Clubs, other organizations, and all who are concerned about the people in Haiti to help fund these programs.  

Your tax-deductible gift can support schools, orphanages, and health clinics:

$500 - Classroom or a small school
$1,500 - A school of 100 to 200 students
$2,000 - For an orphanage or a school of 200 to 500 students
$3,000 - For a health clinic or a school of 500 - 1200 students

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Within a few weeks of your sponsorship of a project, you will receive a picture of your project. A plaque will be paced in your honor when the needed water filters are installed.

PWW pools sponsorships to create blocks of funding that can be applied to a particular project.  Typically we will train teachers to: work within a community;  produce and implement a permanent hygiene curriculum; establish a water filter program for the students; provide the essential water testing and required follow-up services.  Projects are being designed so that the costs will be approximately $60,000 to $80,000 per project.

We believe transparency and accountability are essential in humanitarian projects, so for one year sponsors will receive monthly reports on the implementation and operation of their project.

PWW is soliciting sponsorships for Haiti so that we can move forward immediately. Projects are planned and are ready to go.  PWW's partnership with MSH is in place for in-country organizational and overhead support.
 
Please help us.  A Power Point presentation is attached to show more about Haiti, the incredible need that exists, and the innovative efforts of PWW and its in-country partners. (For PowerPoint 2007, please click here – For an Internet Explorer version of this slide show, click here. Please be patient, these are large files and will take a while to download).

Operational Information

Charles Adams is our current program developer and general project manager in Haiti.  His job is to design the projects, negotiate partnerships with the missions and governmental organizations, and establish the systems for managing operations.  He is responsible for the financing, evaluation, and reporting requirements  for all projects.  He has been instrumental in putting together the working relationships with MSH and our local mission partners.  He is also working to expand our partnerships so that we are teamed up with other organizations working on the ground in Haiti. We will be forming agreements, training our partners, and establishing management systems to insure the sustainability of the projects.  

Roman Cipus is our operations manager who makes everything happen on the ground.  He and his staff train teachers and technicians.  He also manages the production, delivery, and installation of the bio-sand filters.  As the number and complexity of our projects increase, he will develop the operations staff to implement our projects professionally.  

Each project has an implementation plan to define its costs and parameters. Our planning is tied PWW's experience and expertise in socialization, education, and implementation of filter programs and is done according to our proven tested guidelines and procedures. The folllow up and monitoring programs are hallmarks of our projects - Together with our partners in Haiti, we will build and monitor sustainable programs.

The fastest, least expensive way to reduce disease and save lives is through good hygiene and clean water.  There is no quick fix for Haiti - PWW expects to be working with MSH in the key communes for some time. We will be building on our success one school at a time until we include every school in Haiti. Then our outreach will target the rest of the population in the communities we serve.

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