Haiti Water Project, through Nazarene Compassionate Ministries (NCM), aims to provide clean, safe water for communities in Haiti. The goal is to create sustainable water resources that empower local churches to meet the needs around them. One well or cistern can provide fresh water for around 1,000 people. One well or cistern at 500 local churches in Haiti equals 500,000 changed lives. Imagine if Haiti was known more for its hope than for its poverty.

WHY WE EXIST

Haiti is a country filled with beautiful people and great possibilities. Today it is also one of the most water-impoverished countries in the world and after the earthquake, there are even more challenges.  Nine out of ten people do not have running water and more than 4 million have no access to safe drinking water.

It doesn’t have to be that way.

In Haiti, it usually falls to the youngest family members to retrieve water each day for their family. Children as young as four and five are sent out to walk hours each day. Too often, children must spend the day walking for water instead of going to school or parents must pay high prices for water, disabling them from paying for their child’s education. And the water they find may still bring illness. Drinking contaminated water kills thousands each year, and children are especially vulnerable. In fact, one of every eight kids in Haiti won’t reach his or her fifth birthday.

WHAT WE DO

Creating a well or cistern offers health and shows much love.

Haiti Water Project works with local churches to make this happen. HWP works with pastors and church committees to determine the specific water needs in the community, to implement wells, cisterns, and filters, to provide hygiene education, and to discuss maintenance plans. Leaders are empowered to improve lives through sustainable resources. Entire communities are transformed as churches in Haiti become places where people come for both the literal and spiritual water of life.