Community Well Program

Our community well installation coaching program has been a staple of ours for over 20 years. It starts with each community sending us a letter with a desire to partner together. Over the course of 3-6 months, Haiti Outreach staff and a community-appointed water committee (must be 50% women) work on:

• Mapping and creating a community action business plan that includes data-driven decision making;

• Conducting a community census of all who will access the water;

• Ensuring latrines are working and are present in at least 90% of the homes;

• Ensuring sustainability of a water supply;

• Contracting well drillers;

• Establishing monitoring systems; and

• Creating a culture of responsibility, accountability, and integrity. 

Each community then celebrates the completed process and newly installed well with an inauguration celebration.

We know that by coaching each community to follow a sustainable pay-for-service model with a transparent bank account, ensures that when the well breaks or is contaminated, it is able to be repaired by the community themselves and not outside relief agencies.

Sustainable access to clean water within 500 meters of homes in Haiti is vital to achieving increased health and development. We realized that it shouldn’t be Haiti Outreach making these advances in clean water development alone, but that the key actors for sustainable development were the Haitian communities and government.