More on Haiti

Getting up at 5AM every morning is so easy when the roosters start their wake up calls at 4AM. I'm blogging at 6:30 AM on Saturday morning as I prep myself for a hike not too far from here. We're staying on site of the NGO, Clean Water For Haiti. The operation where they make the biosand filters is on the same property as the dorm we are staying in. Leslie and Cris Rollings have a great system set up here and the employees (all locals) are very good workers. We took a trip with the team to deliver 34 biosand filters on Thursday. What a day that was! Each filter is 160 pounds of concrete cement. Can you imagine how heavy that is? Apparently this is the third generation...each filter used to be 300 pounds. Yikes!

A community leader met us when we arrived and directed our team to each household. The deliveries on Thursday were quite challenging because we were in a village which gets a lot of flooding and flooding has already started in that area, so it was quite mucky in some areas. There is a canal that runs probably about 15km and it is extremely dirty. When I say brown....I really mean brown. This is the communities water source. People were bathing, washing clothes, scooping water to take home, and swimming in this dirty water. I couldn't believe. I mean, I have seen poor, but never this poor in my life.

This entire community should have a water filter. Fortunately NGO's like CWFH are around to help improve people's lives.

We have many pictures, but we don't have the bandwidth to upload video and photos while we are here. We'll upload when we are back in Canada. So you have more to look forward to!