As an organization following Jesus Christ, Mission of Hope exists to bring life transformation to every man, woman, and child in Haiti. We desire to serve the nation of Haiti, and see lives changed.
As an organization following Jesus Christ, Mission of Hope exists to bring life transformation to every man, woman, and child in Haiti. We desire to serve the nation of Haiti, and see lives changed.
It seems like the last month or so the hot topic for me has been water. We have been blessed in the past month to have been on the receiving end of 2 water projects.
Water Treatment System:
The first project was to be able to treat our water and bottle it. With a team from Living Waters for The World, a standard water treatment system (filters and ozonation) with bottling station was custom installed at Maggie's Kitchen. This new system will be able to provide treated drinking water for all MOH's needs. The most exciting part of this project was the fact that 4 of our Village of Hope boys were trained in the process of how to run the entire system. When the team was all finished with the installation they invited all the kids from the Village of Hope kids up for a water party. The system was dedicated and we all cheers'd our new source of drinking water. Kids are kids and the cheers' ended up with a little splashing ... worth it I think.
Water Delivery System:
The second of the projects was the completion of a 3 year endeavour with partner churches and individuals from Canada. This was an exciting project see come to fruition as I remember sitting in on the very first meeting back in 2008 to discuss this. In a nutshell, this project will allow us to supplement our deep water well with collected rain water from our roofs and direct it to our cisterns. The system will then push the water back to top of the mission hill without electricity and allow gravity to take it from there to supply all the water needs. The system incorporated trenching over 2000 feet of Haitian rocky soil (soil is a term used very loosely), laying over 6000 feet of pipe, installing 3 in-cisten air pumps, 2 air compressors, 1 deep well air pump, a 22' Airlift air compressor windmill and all the valves and dials to coordinate the whole thing. There were well in excess of 100 people working on this project at one time or another over the past 3 years. Special thanks to Jim Howe and Murray Gostick for all their work on this enormous task.
Thank you to all of you who partner with us in big ways and small ways alike. You are helping us transform lives in Haiti.
