Partners

International Action has partnered with many organizations to provide the Haitian people with the supplies they need – including water systems, medication, water test packets, and educational materials. Our partners enable us to be more effective and help more Haitians. We believe they are vital to our vision.

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With the help of our partners, International Action makes a difference.

Action Against Hunger

Partner since 2011.

Working with Action Against Hunger, in May 2011 we installed a chlorinator on a 1600-gallon tank in Monjoie, an impoverished neighborhood in Port-au-Prince. The tank serves nearly 30,000 people, many of who travel from the surrounding area to retrieve water.

Action Humanitaire

Partner since 2011.

Action Humanitaire provided albendazole, PUR, and chlorine tablets were given in order to distribute to the people of Cavaillon during conferences on cholera prevention.

American Institutes for Research

Partner since 2011.

With the help of AIR, we have installed 2,000-gallon water tanks with chlorinators at 27 schools in Port-au-Prince, Petit-Goâve and Léogâne. Ultimately, the joint project between IA and AIR plans to reach a total of 60 schools, serving up to 60,000 students. IA’s staff in Haiti is training members of AIR as well as Haitian Ministry of Education personnel, teachers and other community members in the use, safe handling and maintenance of the equipment.

Arch Chemicals

Partner since 2005.

Produces the affordable, safe chlorine tablets that are used to disinfect water at our chlorinator sites around the country. One tablet can disinfect up to 25,000 gallons of water. Arch Chemicals also donated granular chlorine to combat the cholera epidemic in 2010. The chlorine was distributed throughout the consortium of 20 groups in Haiti.

Christian Aid Ministries

Partner since 2010.

Christian Aid Ministries helped facilitate the shipment of 34 2,000-gallon water tanks and PVC fittings to Port-au-Prince.

International Committee of the Red Cross

Partner since 2011.

In collaboration with Le Comite International de la Croix Rouge (International Committee of the Red Cross), we installed four chlorinators in Drouillard in June 2011.

Deep Springs International

Partner since 2010.

We have partnered with Deep Springs International (DSI), an NGO creating sustainable micro-businesses focusing on treating water. DSI delivered 80 gallons of Gadyen Dlo (its liquid chlorine treatment) to DINEPA (National Directorate for Water Supply and Sanitation) to purify over 1,200,000 liters of water. DINEPA is using this shipment of Gadyen Dlo to treat a piped public water system in Saint Marc, a coastal town ravaged by cholera.

Digicel Foundation

Partner since 2010.

Digicel Foundation donated telecommunications equipment and services for our staff. We are now in discussions to install chlorinators and distribute de-worming tablets in Digicel Foundation’s schools.

Doctors Without Borders

Partner since 2010.

We have provided “Médecins Sans Frontières” (Doctors Without Borders), the leader of cholera treatment at the CTC (Cholera Treatment Centers), with Aluminum sulfate. This compound is used to treat waste that may be infected, to help create a safe environment.

EarthSpark International

Partner since 2010.

We have acquired a consignment of durable, waterproof Mini-BoGo solar flashlights from our Clinton Global Initiative partner EarthSpark. With the flashlights, water board members will now be able to operate water stations during the night if need be.

Engineers Without Borders - USA Portland Professional Chapter

Partner since 2010.

We are supporting EWB-USA Portland Professional’s clean water project in Les Anglais through the provision of chlorine at two communities, serving 12,000 Haitians.

ERM Foundation North America

Partner since 2011.

The ERM Foundation of North America supports environmental projects around the world. The foundation is particularily interested in projects which offer additional social benefits to local communities. The employees of ERM have been very supportive of our work with clean water, helping us to bring clean water to thousands of Haitians.

GeoEye Foundation

Partner since 2010.

GeoEye Foundation provided us with satellite imagery of quake-displaced persons movements in Port-au-Prince and Léogâne, which helped track population centers and assisted in our planning to provide water services to affected neighborhood returnees.

GrassRoots United

Partner since 2010.

We supplied GrassRoots United’s medical warehouse with 10,000 albendazole tablets for free distribution to other NGOs.

Water Missions International

Partner since 2010.

Water Missions International is assisting us to conduct comprehensive microbial testing of our water tanks before and after chlorination as an added safeguard to ensure water distributed is clean and high-quality.

Yéle Haiti

Partner since 2010.

With the help of Yéle Haiti, we installed five 2000-gallon water tanks. Yéle Haiti is a grassroots organization founded by musicians Wyclef Jean and Jerry Duplessis.

Norweco

Partner since 2005.

Manufactures the chlorinators that we have installed at all of our distribution sites around the country. Norweco has granted us exclusive distribution rights to their chlorinators in Haiti. Norweco also donated granular chlorine to combat the cholera epidemic in 2010. The chlorine was distributed throughout the consortium of 20 groups in Haiti.

Oxfam

Partner since 2011.

In collaboration with Oxfam, International Action installed four chlorinators in the province of Nippes in October 2011 in an effort to protect the population from the cholera epidemic.

Planting Peace

Partner since 2005.

Manufactures the chlorinators that we have installed at all of our distribution sites around the country. Norweco has granted us exclusive distribution rights to their chlorinators in Haiti. Norweco also donated granular chlorine to combat the cholera epidemic in 2010. The chlorine was distributed throughout the consortium of 20 groups in Haiti.

Project Concern International

Partner since 2011.

Project Concern International helped us distribute 25,000 albendazole de-worming pills through their clinics in Croix Deprez, Nazon, Fort National and Asile Comunnale, primarily to children.

SOIL

Partner since 2010.

We installed a 2000-gallon tank at a camp run by SOIL in Caonabo, a small village in Cazeau in the Delmas district. The tank will serve over 3000 people who previously had no access to clean water.

United Nations Development Program

Partner since 2010.

With the help of the United Nations Development Program, we installed two chlorinators in Jacmel in June of 2010.

GRET

Partner since 2010.

GRET in Haiti and International Action work together to support the Government of Haiti/DINEPA (Direction Nationale de l’Eau Potable et de l’Assainissement) to repair/rehabilitate the water storage and distribution systems damaged by the earthquake of January 12, 2010 in Port-au-Prince and surrounding jurisdictions. International Action will install its chlorinators on all water storage tanks and reservoirs repaired/rebuilt by GRET and its partners.

American Chemistry Council

Partner since 2010.

The American Chemistry Council (ACC) has provided financial support for International Action’s work to supply safe, chlorinated drinking water to Haiti since 2010. In 2013, ACC sponsored a booth at the American Public Health Association annual conference to showcase the work of International Action, raising $10,000 to supply chlorinators to the communities of Mellier and Chatuley. ACC also initiated an educational relationship between IA and Ludlow-Taylor Elementary School in Washington, DC.