I wanted to thank everyone again for all your support over the past year and let you know about a new opportunity that I have been asked to participate. I would not have been prepared in the same way had it not been for your generosity over the past eighteen months...
On October 18th I will be traveling to Haiti to participate in a design trip for a new water system for the Thomazeau area. Our hope is to design a water system that will be able to serve up to 20,000 people in desperate need of a clean, reliable drinking water system. The current team is a partnership between Living Water (Nashville, TN), LiveBeyond Mobile Medical Disaster Relief, and Knox ProCorps. Our team of eight will be doing the field work necessary to completely define the project and produce design documents for fund raising and construction.
Haiti's water supply infrastructure has not recovered since the earthquake and has been exacerbated by the introduction of Cholera during the relief efforts. If you would like to learn more about Haiti's water situation please read the following links.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/world/americas/haitis-cholera-outraced-the-experts-and-tainted-the-un.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
https://medium.com/medium-for-haiti/50f6c0314b9e
Ulpan Update:
The work on water projects in the Ulpan Valley has slowed since our departure but is still ongoing. Julio has been working on a latrine program to increase sanitation in the valley and we have heard recently that another village has requested CAFNIMA's help with a water system. We think that Lipscomb Engineering students in collaboration with Kris Hatchell (our partner from the valley) will design and help construct this system.
Mark
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