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.
Our action plan for each community we engage:
Community initiates the process to work with Haiti Outreach
Community needs and current resources are assessed, along with a census taken of homes and people
A volunteer community management committee is elected
Haiti Outreach animators conduct training on sanitation, hygiene, and well management over the duration of 3 months
Haiti Outreach drills the well and builds a well house around the hand pump
Well is inaugurated and the community gains full access to clean water
Community is fully responsible for management of the well with monthly mentoring by Haiti Outreach for 2 years