Water System for Hospital in Haiti
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Water System for New Hospital in Haiti
Plaine du Nord lies in the valley, south of Cap Haitien and below the Massif Du Nord mountain range. This is the location where Dr. Eugene Maklin and Haiti Mission Branch du Nord (HMBN) have begun construction on a desperately needed 33 bed hospital to serve the 250,000 underserved people in the region. Dr. Maklin, a native Haitian, runs several health clinics and also a microfinance organization – all to help the people of Haiti. He strives to bring those living in Haiti out of poverty to ensure long-lasting and healthy lives.
The health needs in Plaine du Nord are great - with a variety of preventable and treatable diseases such as AIDS, cholera, typhoid, malaria, chikungunya and cancers. Currently, the sick undertake an expensive, dangerous and pounding journey on poorly constructed roads to distant hospitals to receive care. As a result, many go untreated and suffer unnecessarily.
The hospital will provide health services for the following communities: Plaine-Du-Nord, Morne Rouge, the city of the Acul-Du-Nord, Grisongarde, Grand Ravine, Coup a David, Mornet, La Bruyère, Camp Louise, Robillard, and Soufriere. It will provide access to specialized health services, particularly for children under five years old and young mothers. This hospital will also support the community to farm healthy foods and improve food security for surrounding communities.
We are Dlo Geri (Creole for Healing Water), a 501(c)3 charitable organization, formed to help HMBN with the drinking water and wastewater treatment needs of the hospital. We are a group of water professionals from New Jersey and engineering students from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.
Dlo Geri Members, Dr. Maklin and Oscar during the January Assessment Trip
Dlo Geri team members with well pump
Our need: Dr. Eugene Maklin and the New Hope Hospital in Plaine du Nord, Haiti plan to open their doors to patients in a clinic/outpatient mode on July 23, 2016. This GoFundMe drive will provide needed funding to Dlo Geri for Phase 1 of a new drinking water system for the patients and staff at the hospital as well as for travel costs for team members to install the system. Specifically, we plan to install a new well, a chlorination system for disinfection and new water storage tanks in this phase. We are planning to install this over Labor Day Weekend - 2016.
By the generous gifts of our friends in our first fund drive, we were able to fund the first phase and send a team of eight (8) Dlo Geri team members to conduct an assessment of the site and communities.
Based on the results of our January 2016 assessment trip to Haiti and our subsequent work on the design of a water system, we are recommending a Phase 1 chlorination pilot program be implemented using a system identical to the one used at the Sacre Couer Hospital in Milot, Haiti. This begins the implementation phase of our water work at the hospital. With your help we hope to raise $6,000 by August 25th to pay for the equipment, supplies and our 4-day trip there in September to install it.
Plaine du Nord lies in the valley, south of Cap Haitien and below the Massif Du Nord mountain range. This is the location where Dr. Eugene Maklin and Haiti Mission Branch du Nord (HMBN) have begun construction on a desperately needed 33 bed hospital to serve the 250,000 underserved people in the region. Dr. Maklin, a native Haitian, runs several health clinics and also a microfinance organization – all to help the people of Haiti. He strives to bring those living in Haiti out of poverty to ensure long-lasting and healthy lives.
The health needs in Plaine du Nord are great - with a variety of preventable and treatable diseases such as AIDS, cholera, typhoid, malaria, chikungunya and cancers. Currently, the sick undertake an expensive, dangerous and pounding journey on poorly constructed roads to distant hospitals to receive care. As a result, many go untreated and suffer unnecessarily.
The hospital will provide health services for the following communities: Plaine-Du-Nord, Morne Rouge, the city of the Acul-Du-Nord, Grisongarde, Grand Ravine, Coup a David, Mornet, La Bruyère, Camp Louise, Robillard, and Soufriere. It will provide access to specialized health services, particularly for children under five years old and young mothers. This hospital will also support the community to farm healthy foods and improve food security for surrounding communities.
We are Dlo Geri (Creole for Healing Water), a 501(c)3 charitable organization, formed to help HMBN with the drinking water and wastewater treatment needs of the hospital. We are a group of water professionals from New Jersey and engineering students from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.
Dlo Geri Members, Dr. Maklin and Oscar during the January Assessment TripDlo Geri team members with well pumpOur need: Dr. Eugene Maklin and the New Hope Hospital in Plaine du Nord, Haiti plan to open their doors to patients in a clinic/outpatient mode on July 23, 2016. This GoFundMe drive will provide needed funding to Dlo Geri for Phase 1 of a new drinking water system for the patients and staff at the hospital as well as for travel costs for team members to install the system. Specifically, we plan to install a new well, a chlorination system for disinfection and new water storage tanks in this phase. We are planning to install this over Labor Day Weekend - 2016.
By the generous gifts of our friends in our first fund drive, we were able to fund the first phase and send a team of eight (8) Dlo Geri team members to conduct an assessment of the site and communities.
Based on the results of our January 2016 assessment trip to Haiti and our subsequent work on the design of a water system, we are recommending a Phase 1 chlorination pilot program be implemented using a system identical to the one used at the Sacre Couer Hospital in Milot, Haiti. This begins the implementation phase of our water work at the hospital. With your help we hope to raise $6,000 by August 25th to pay for the equipment, supplies and our 4-day trip there in September to install it.
Organizer and beneficiary
Nimah Ahmed
Organizer
Franklin Township, NJ
Albert Capuzzi
Beneficiary