VERMONT HAITI PROJECT NEWS

     During a year that has already seen a tragic earthquake, nationwide floods, and political unrest, Haiti has now been plagued by an outbreak of cholera.  The death toll has exceeded one thousand from this infection of the small intestine primarily caused by consuming contaminated drinking water or food.
     Thankfully, the use of bio-sand water filters, which Vermont Haiti Project has provided to communities at virtually no cost, has resulted in zero incidents of cholera.

     VHP partner Despagne Felix, supervisor of VHP’s water filter program in Port au Prince, reports:

To VHP Vermont

From Haiti

     We're feeling so happy to write on the name of our community because we want to say thank you to all members and friends of VHP for all great support.
     VHP has given us the opportunity and ability to treat and to have Clean Water to drink!   We also want to say thank you to friends at Rotary South Burlington.

     Since  Jan. 2009, we started to solve a lot problems of disease in our community with using Bio-sand filters for water to drink, to do everything, and to help to save the money that people used to buy water before.  We also do a lot of education for the people.
    The Bio-sand filter is a big protection for us, it help us to prevent so many kind of  microbes since 2009 to today.
     As now, our area and I, we have not yet been touch by the cholera.

     We're so happy and feel free to say that, grace of God and VHP, our community of Port-Au-Prince, Delmas 60 Musseau will be not be touched by the cholera.

Thank you and God bless you,

Emmanuel
Patrick
Michelson
Despagne:  Manager of the VHP program in Haiti.