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SODIS uses increased temperature, UV light, and oxidative chemistry to inactivatedisease-causing organisms. Users are trained to place bottles in the sun for 6 hours-2days, depending on climate. Diarrhea reduction is 9-86%. Aside from initial bottles,SODIS is a zero-cost option. Benefits include acceptability to users because of theminimal cost and ease-of-use. Also, recontamination is unlikely because [...]

WTO – World Toilet Organization

I am writing from Philadelphia at the annual World Toilet Summit hosted by the WTO – World Toilet Organization, ASPE – American Society of Plumbing Engineers and ICC – International Code Council.  What a great partnership! People dedicated to improving access to sanitation have travelled from throughout the world – from [...]

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We are waiting for the second team to arrive in Duchity.  I have 2 days of other work preparing for their arrival.

The last day of [...]

July 17
 
This is Team 1′s last day. The rain poured down this morning after the morning soccer game but before breakfast.  We were treated by Fred Cheron to a lovely repast.  We’re hoping the rain stays away long enough for us to get up to Lakadonie to visit the coffee growers and see the progress [...]

The days fly by whenever I’m in Haiti. The team arrived almost one week ago and we have been busy every day.  We went first to St Louis de Sud, where we took a boat to the community of La Pointe st Nicola.  There we inaugurated 2 new public dry toilets in a beach-side community [...]

The first team arrived on Friday, it seems a long time ago already. Today is only Monday and already they have seen so much. Port au Prince still in shambles, but people struggling to move on with their lives. The amazing Haitian countryside as we travelled by car to St Louis de Sud. We had [...]

SAVE THE DATE!

YOUTHAITI – “Unity makes Strength”    Benefit in honor of Haitian Flag Day

Saturday, May 15, 2010Turner Hall BallroomMilwaukee, WI

Tickets: $100Contact: info@youthaiti.org for more information

Upcoming Projects in Grande’Anse

Thanks to recent donations, and especially a grant from the Jewish Coalition for Disaster Relief, we were able to plan 3 new public toilets to be built in the next month.   As areas in the countryside absorb internally displaced people, the need for sanitation and increased agricultural production are increased.  Every area [...]

Wednesday March 3, 2010

As always, I return from Haiti with mixed emotions.  Anxious to be home, sad to be [...]

Dear friends,
 
I worte a long blog post on another computer and can’t transfer it.  It may not appear until I get back! 
It is Saturday Feb 27, I am sitting in Duchity still, waiting out the rain.  It has been raining on and off for days – in Duchity, along the coast, and in Port [...]