Fresh drinking water from Rain Water Cisterns
local wells causing problems

A 400 gallon water cistern installed by Haitians and paid for by donors in Canada.

A typical well where kids will drink from. They constantly dig new holes as the well goes bad.

A typical well that is no longer any good. The water is far too salty to drink. However they still do as it gets very hot and many wells go dry.

A well dug in the sand is only good for a short time until the salt content is too high. If they keep digging in the same area the whole area will become no good as the salt levels go way up.

This girl is getting water from a dug well on Ile de Permatois which is off of Ile a Vache.  They had no water cisterns at all on this small island where over 300 are living.  We installed 2 cisterns and want to install more.

Even wells dug by local priests or missionaries have too much sodium in the water causes skin diseases or kids hair to turn red.

Another donation with many more needed.

We buy all the materials in Haiti providing income for store owners. We then haul all the gear back to the island by boats.

We train responsible Haitians how to install cisterns. We give them tools and pay them hourly for all work.

We have installed cisterns where concrete ones have failed. Due to salt being used in concrete large concrete cisterns eventually fail like this one at a church. The costs are just too much to replace it so we will hook up plastic tanks.

This is a school where the concrete cistern failed. We are in the midst of replacing it with a plastic tank. This school is in a remote area of the island.

Another remote school. All water is shared from these locations.

A typical installation
if you donate $500 dollars this is what is done for your cistern
we even put a plaque on it in your name

Cistern 20.  In 2015 we are now over 100 cisterns installed.