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2012

  • Chlorine Protects Haitians from Waterborne Diseases
    August 28, 2012

    The Tropical Storm Issac hit Haiti, claiming 19 lives and Haiti is at risk of fresh cholera outbreak.

    Chlorinators and chlorine tablets are readily available in Haiti to any organization operating in cholera-affected areas. Interested parties should contact us immediately.

    The tablet chlorinators provide a steady, pre-set level of chlorination which persists in the water for many days. This provides dependable protection against the disease-causing bacteria common in the buckets, home storage tanks, and local piping in developing countries.

2011

  • Albendazole De-worming Pills Available for Non-profits or Communities in Haiti
    June 16, 2011

    International Action’s Haiti office is distributing 500,000 albendazole de-worming pills to protect Haiti’s communities and get its children healthy and back in school. The pills are available free of charge to non-profit or community organizations that can administer them.

  • Chlorine Available for Non-profits or Communities in Haiti
    June 16, 2011

    International Action -- a nonprofit charity that provides safe drinking water for more than 400,000 people in Port-au-Prince, Haiti -- is dispatching its team to Carrefour to combat the resurgence of cholera in the capital city. Since 2006 the nonprofit has focused on eliminating waterborne diseases in Haiti using a simple, energy-free chlorine feeder system that treats the water of the community tanks.

  • International Action: A True Partner to the People of Haiti
    June 7, 2011

    One year after the earthquake, Haitians are growing impatient with non-governmental organizations, humanitarian aid workers, and its own public officials. Disorganization, bureaucracy, and confusion among humanitarian organizations have left the majority Haitians frustrated and discontent with the progress (or lack thereof) since January 12, 2010. The once welcomed humanitarian organizations and workers are now the subject of resentment and disdain.

  • Award-Winning Actress, Best-Selling Author Joins Non-Profit Board
    May 23, 2011

    Victoria Rowell – an award-winning actress, New York Times best-selling author, and philanthropist – has joined the board of trustees of International Action, a non-profit organization currently providing clean water to nearly half a million Haitians.

2010

  • Haitian NGO Responds to Spreading Cholera Crisis
    October 23, 2010

    Today, International Action met with DINEPA water department officials and UN WASH Cluster partners to strategize a coordinated response to the spreading cholera epidemic. To combat this fatal waterborne disease, International Action plans to supply and install 50 chlorinators and 8 water tanks throughout Artibonite Department, the epicenter of the outbreak. Nine hundred chlorine tablets have also been released by the organization to the Haitian water agency and other NGOs addressing the public health crisis.

  • International Action Intervenes in Haiti’s Cholera Outbreak
    October 22, 2010

    A deadly cholera outbreak has erupted across Haiti's Artibonite Department, claiming at least 150 lives and sickening more than 1,500 others. The first registered cholera epidemic in Haiti in decades is the worst public health catastrophe since the January 12 earthquake.

  • International Action Joins Rubble Clearance Efforts to Protect Public Health
    October 9, 2010

    In an effort to keep the spotlight on Haiti's precarious public health sector, International Action has expanded its water and sanitation operations to include a rubble clearance project in the vicinities of water kiosks and fountains in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Noting that the January earthquake damaged many water stations, there is no doubt that removing the mountains of rubble is critical to the reconstruction and restoration of water infrastructure in the impoverished neighborhoods that lack access to clean water.

  • In Aftermath of Quake, A Local Group is Delivering Much Needed Potable Water to Fellow Haitians
    February 4, 2010

    From May 2006 up to before the earthquake hit, Dlo Pwop and Washington, D.C.-based partner International Action had jointly installed 140 chlorinators on water tanks in neighborhoods, schools, orphanages, and hospitals throughout Port-au-Prince, providing over 400,000 Haitians previously exposed to waterborne diseases like cholera, typhoid, hepatitis, and chronic diarrhea with a supply of clean, safe water.

  • From Their Very Own Local Water, a Haitian Group Is Delivering Drinkable Water to 200,000 Haitians Each Day
    January 25, 2010

    After the Earthquake two weeks ago, a local Haitian group developed a system in which they are helping to deliver water to Haitians. Haitians are helping Haitians. Dlo Pwòp/International Action supplies 200,000 Haitians with one gallon of clean water each day.

  • International Action Delivers 150,000 Gallons of Clean Water in Port-au-Prince Daily
    January 23, 2010

    Since the Earthquake 10 days ago, an American non-governmental group has developed a system which delivers clean water to 150,000 residents of the Haitian capital each day. International Action has located 28 water storage tanks in Port-au-Prince neighborhoods which are undamaged and able to hold at least 1,000 gallons of clean water. The group is now paying local water truck drivers to fill these tanks in the poorest parts of the city.

2009

  • Two Pratt Institute Graduate Students Organize Art Auction for Clean Water in Haiti
    April 28, 2009

    Art of Giving 2009: Art Exhibition & Fundraiser will take place at the Student Union at Pratt Institute on May 1-2, 2009 on the school's Brooklyn campus. The Exhibition will feature a silent auction of the artworks of Pratt students and faculty, and all proceeds will be directed to the non-profit organization, International Action and their Campaign for Clean Water in Haiti. Already, this five-year campaign has installed over 110 chlorinators in Haiti helping to provide Clean Water to over 400,000 Haitians.

  • St. Bosco School Will Triple Number of Students, Get Clean
    April 27, 2009

    The Salesian Fathers at the St. Jean Bosco School in Port-au-Prince, Haiti will open a new primary school for 1,000 students in the fall of this year. With the current secondary school, they will have 1,500 children.

    International Action – a U.S.-based health group – just installed two chlorinators on St. Bosco's 9,000-gallon concrete tanks to get ready for the reopening. St. Boscos' is the church-related school where former President Aristide was educated and became a Salesian priest.

  • De-Worming Campaign Reaches 120,000 in Port-au-Prince
    March 31, 2009
  • GreenLinkz.com Supports International Actions's Campaign for Clean Water in Haiti
    March 17, 2009

    Clean, safe drinking water is something many people take for granted. In Haiti, half of the population does not have access to clean water (World Bank); almost all water sources are contaminated with germs of typhoid, cholera, and chronic diarrhea. Such waterborne diseases are the leading cause of infant mortality and illness in children. Since May 2006, International Action has installed over 100 chlorinators on public water tanks in the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince – the capital – providing over 400,000 with clean, safe drinking water and GreenLinkz.com would like to add another million people to that number in 2009.

2008

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