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Reports from Haiti

Championing Cooperation Among NGOs: Our Partnership with AmeriCares

May 7, 2012

We have been championing cooperation among NGOs for some time in Haiti; it is a necessity to work with Haitian communities and other NGOs to make lasting change in Haiti. Cooperation has been built into our work in Haiti from the beginning. For every chlorinator we have installed, we coordinated with the involved Haitian community, DINEPA, and often with other NGOs. We then took this model of cooperation to our Cholera Prevention Consortium last year, in which International Action and 35 different groups disbursed chlorine to over 400,000 Haitians.

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Clean Water Comes to Five More Schools

May 7, 2012

The progress of the Southeast Water Project continues. Working with DINPEA (the Haitian Water Agency), International Action has installed chlorinators, water tanks, and water pumps at 5 more schools. Three of these schools are the educational homes of more than 2,000 children each. These schools need a lot of water.

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Water for Ecole Nationale de K-Rock

May 7, 2012

This cannot be said enough: Clean, safe water increases school attendance and a child’s ability to learn.

The new chlorinator, water tank, and water pump at K-Rock

Ecole Nationale de K-Rock in Jacmel is home to 2,000 students. Before this past month, there was no clean, safe water to be had at K-Rock. International Action changed this with the installation of a chlorinator, water tank, and water pump.

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Press

Oxfam takes the fight against cholera to rural Haiti
Oxfam, October 31

International Action Update
Haiti Innovation, July 15

NGOs Report Resurgence of Cholera in Haiti (PDF, 39KB)
OOSKAnews, July 13

Testimonial

Since International Action installed chlorinators, the rate of diarrhea and sickness of children dropped dramatically. Kids are not getting sick any more. We learned we can prevent such diseases. We'd like to keep it this way.

— Pierre Joab, President of Simmond-Pelé