After nine hours on the road, reflecting on our day, we see the lives that have been touched, including our own. We received praise and song for a basic necessity, clean water.
Patricia Gauthier arrived here in September to run the FFP school. 60 children ages 3-6. The area around the school has no water and the kids need it to drink and to have sanitary conditions for living and learning. They have drilled a well but have no pump to retrieve it and still need to...
90 degrees and we are headed fast out of Port au Prince traveling some of the few paved roads running along the base of Mont Cabrit (Goat Mountain) on our way to Gonaives. Three 4 wheel drives more off road than on. There is some road work being done a couple of graders but even...
Today, we spent the afternoon meeting with the CEO of Food for the Poor, Robin Mafood, learning more about the desperate situation in Haiti. Of immediate need are more wells and better roads. Other projects on-going through Food for the Poor include Talapia farms, fishing villages and housing along the coast. After FFP, we...
Tomorrow a small group of those committed to this project and led by Ed Buckley along with guides from Food for the Poor will embark on yet another journey to and across Haiti to visit the sites of many of the wells, dedicate several that have recently been constructed and view areas in need of...
This is one of the many wells our project has funded through partnership with Food For The Poor. Water-Life-Hope is a partnership with Food For The Poor to raise $500,000 for the construction of water wells in Haiti. So far the project has raised enough money to fund over 100 such wells, 70 of which...