Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Safe water means healthier children, less illness. Women and children can get an education instead of fetching water from a distant source. More trees mean flood control, improved land for farming due to less soil erosion and more food.

Project Message

Lambi helped us build "14 cisterns in our community. Our children are no longer sick from bad water. Instead of spending money on sending them to the doctor, we spend it on their education.”
- Guerline, member of another peasant group funded by Lambi

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Josette Perard,
Haiti Director
94 Ave Lamartiniere
Port au Prince,
Haiti
011-509-245-9445
Email:

Project Sponsor

Lambi Fund of Haiti

Organization

Lambi Fund of Haiti PO Box 18955 Washington, DC 20036 United States 202-833-3713 http://www.lambifund.org

Learn more about Lambi Fund of Haiti and the project team.

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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Haiti and can also be found under Health.

For more information about Haiti, read the Human Development Report on Haiti or the Wikipedia entry for Haiti.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on August 13, 2008.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on October 07, 2005.

Latest Update from the Field

Safe Drinking Water and Planting Trees: Chato

By Leonie Hermantin - Deputy Director, August 13, 2008 05:02 PM

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Almost 1/3 of Haitians have no access to safe drinking water,
resulting in disease and a high death rate for children. Haiti is described by the U.N. as one of the most degraded countries in the world. Without trees
to protect the land, flooding from hurricanes destroys homes, lives, farmland and ecosystems. Our
poorest neighbor in the Western Hemisphere needs an urgent plan to plant trees and provide safe water for 600 peasants in the village of Chato.

Activities
Peasants in Chato asked Lambi to help build a network of 10 water cisterns. They also want to reforest the area with 100,000 trees. They will provide the labor and, with your help, Lambi will provide construction materials, training and seedlings

Project Update

Cisterns
Having built 5 cisterns last year, Konbit -2004 has completed the construction of 5 additional cisterns. Today all 10 cisterns have been built as planned. The last five cisterns were constructed at a cost of $4286 per unit, a significant increase caused by the rising price of materials.

Workshops
On August 8-9, 2008 a workshop was conducted on water purification. About 30 members of the organization were in attendance.

Nurseries
The organization is ready to launch the second phase of its reforestation efforts. About 50,000 seedlings will be produced by December 2008 and the remaining 25,000 will be produced in early 2009.

Project Impact:

The cisterns brought great relief to the community of Chato. In addition to providing access to potable drinking water, the cisterns brought great relief to Chato’s young girls who traditionally have to walk long distances to get water and are unable to go to school.

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