News from Haiti: June 2009

Clean Water for Cité Gérard

Cité Gérard is one of the 47 sections of Cité Soleil. Like many of its neighboring communities, the community of Cité Gérard had been in recent years in a state of dramatic violence.

Since 2006, the violence has gone down only to be replaced by rampant poverty. In Cité Gérard, insalubrities, famine, low rate of school enrollment, and a very high birth rate all have kept the population in a grave state of misery.

The CIRC (International Red Cross Committee) recently installed a brand new water tank in Cité Gérard for the community and we came in to set up one chlorinator to treat the water. Today, the population of Cité Gérard receives clean and safe drinking water. The children will soon stop getting sick. Hence they will now be able to attend school more regularly.

The water station in Cité Gérard

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