Learn.
Find out more about the global water situation and specific needs in Haiti. You’re off to a good start by looking through our site. You can also sign up for our e-newsletter on the homepage. Here are a few other sources with information that we do not necessarily endorse, but have found to be helpful and thought-provoking:
Interim Haiti Recovery Commission
Talk.
Raise awareness about the need for clean water in Haiti and the ways we can all get involved.
Talk about it with friends, family, and organizations you are a part of.
Join the Haiti Water Project cause on Facebook, and invite your friends.
Follow us on Twitter.
Act.
The estimated cost to dig a well is $5,000. Individuals can donate part (or all) of the cost of a well or groups can go in together to provide a well.
Just $1 provides clean water for 1 person for 1 year. Come up with creative ways people can give a dollar.
• Give Up Your Bottles. In the U.S. we spent $15 billion (yes, billion) on bottled water in 2008. That’s enough money to supply clean water for all of the 1.1 billion people in the world who don’t have access to safe water. Give the money you would normally spend on bottled water in a month to Haiti Water Project so people in Haiti can have clean water.
• Host a benefit [fill in the blank]. Showcase your talents (and/or those of your friends) and use the proceeds to partner with HWP. Make it a concert or writer’s night or photography exhibit or…
• Organize a fundraiser to help raise money for wells in Haiti. If you’re into running, you could do something like a community-wide 5K race. If you’re a creative designer type, you could sell T-shirts you design. The possibilities are as limitless as your imagination.
Pray.
Pray for children who are sick with water-borne diseases.
Pray for women who walk hours each day to retrieve water for their families.
Pray that God would provide resources for churches in Haiti to meet the needs around them.
Pray for the government as they work to build infrastructure throughout the country.
Pray for the people in Haiti.
