Pure Water for the World

Pure Water for the World/Haiti implements projects by building partnerships with organizations that already have respect and credibility in the community.  Our partnering organizations serve the poor, and the vulnerable; and they have a vested interest in the welfare of the people.  These organizations have the structure to deliver services to schools and clinics.

Our priority is to provide hygiene education and clean water to the students in Haiti’ schools.  In Haiti, as in many developing nations, much of the educational system is private, not public.  85% of the schools are privately operated by mission groups and non governmental organizations.  We form partnerships with these organizations so that together we can provide clean water, teacher training, and hygiene education to school children.

Pure Water for the World/Haiti provides a package of services to reduces disease and save and improve lives by providing point of use water purification, teacher training and hand washing and hygiene education tools.  We also provide a package of services to reduces disease and save and improve lives by providing point of use water purification, teacher training and hand washing and hygiene education tools.

• This national campaign is primarily a school based hygiene education program, delivered in each school by our trained partner teachers who are the key to sustainability
• In the first 18 months, we trained 1,640 teachers to provide hygiene education and manage filter systems in 725 schools.
• We trained 51 filter technicians and installed and monitored 3500 biosand filters serving over 205, 00 students, as well as 493 households and 91 health facilities.

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PROGRAM COMPONENTS

Train the Teachers
The curriculum based program educates teachers on the courses of water borne diseases, how to teach children on the prevention of diseases, and how to use and maintain the water filter and storage system.

Provide Hygiene Education Tools
Using colorful pictures, we use story telling as the method to aid teachers in teaching their students the importance of clean water, hand washing and sanitation is to good health.

Install Water Systems
The most feasible, effective and economic approach to improving water quality is under served areas in developing countries is through water treatment using the biosand filter and safe water storage

Monitor and Inspect
We inspect the performance of the filtration and water storage system to ensure compliance and to learn how to strengthen our support services.

Water Analysis
We randomly conduct water testing to determine quality of water
 
 
Completed projects in Haiti in Partnership with:

• The Methodist Church of Haiti
• The Church of Nazarene of Haiti
• The Episcopal Church of Haiti

Ongoing Projects or about to start with:

• The Wesleyan Church of Haiti
• International Child Care

Major supporting partners of Pure Water for the World/Haiti are Management Sciences for Haiti/USAID foundations, businesses and numerous Rotary Clubs worldwide.