A great need in Haiti is clean drinking water. Hope for Haiti and Living Water Midwest are partnering together to drill new water wells.
We are also educating Haitians on how to start and maintain gardens. These gardens provide food for their families and also allow them to sell the excess for other needs.
A child dies every 15 seconds because of impure drinking water and associated diseases, many of them in Haiti. More than one in three babies in Haiti die before age five. We estimate that an average of over 3000 people will be served by each well.
It has cost us about $15,000.00 to get a garden started which included leasing the land, building a secure fence around it, drilling a well providing a water distribution system, plowing the land, buying tools for the members and hiring a Haitian agronomist to train and lead the members.
We now try to start our family gardens on church-owned property, which will cost about $12,500.00 each because we won't be leasing the land. All we need are funds to get them going and hope we can start at least several more gardens this year.
Recently this new four-wheel drive tractor has been donated. Also a new water well drilling rig has been provided. It has been mounted on the new tractor. It is now in Haiti drilling new water wells. We are very excited to be able to drill new wells that are so desperately needed.