I remember when I was around 14 my parents purchased a water cooler. It was the stand up kind, a slight cream color, with one blue button that dispensed cold water from one of those 5-gallon jugs inverted and placed in the top. Sure we had tap water, but growing up in Florida we occasionally [...]
The community in Bellanger not only sustained severe damage to their buildings and lost many lives in the January earthquake, but their only source of clean water, a hand-dug well, stop producing water. This left the community paying for small baggies or 5 gallon bottles of drinking water and using water from ditches or [...]
Before this well was drilled on the property of a local church and school for music, community members were paying for small baggies of drinking water and using unsafe water for tasks such as bathing and laundry. Now, more than 500 people are benefiting from clean, safe drinking water. After suffering through tremendous loss in [...]
I found out about the Haiti Water Project at the church’s General Assembly in Orlando, FL in 2009. (I’m the one who took around 20 coasters…). I was very moved to see with what love the missionary was talking about the project and what it means to the people of Haiti. I came back excited [...]
This Mother’s Day, families in Bellanger, Haiti are not only celebrating the lives of women they know, but also a new life-giving well providing clean water to the entire community located north of Port-au-Prince. The Haiti Water Project, a ministry of Nazarene Compassionate Ministries, recently visited the town to find that their only source of [...]
