Haiti, Water Arrives in Pourcine

For Christmas, here is some good news among many other totally opposite ones.
Maybe small, but enough to confirm our hope and trust that, despite everything, good continues to exist.
This is demonstrated by the photos that tell us about the happiness of many Haitian families to finally have drinkable water. Heartfelt thanks to the many who, responding to our appeal, with their sharing have made possible what has been achieved so far... the adventure continues!

The aqueduct project for the village of Pourcine - Pic Makaya, in Haiti, born from the initiative of the new parish priest, the Camillian Father Massimo Miraglio, is substantially completed.
Despite the rain, the moving choral effort of the entire community has made the difference. Without roads, sand, cement, stones, pipes, tanks have risen from the valley floor to the village, hundreds of meters of altitude, by force of arms.

The availability of water, which will also help with small-scale family agriculture, is truly a precious resource that deserved these and other efforts: the spring has a flow rate of 2.3 liters/second, or 8 cubic meters per hour! A thousand people who live in the village area have started to use it, with a temporary installation, but it will also be useful to many others who live on the surrounding slopes.

It is the first, very important step to give life to a community in great need.
It fuels a new hope that Father Massimo now intends to make concrete with the construction of a simple but important building - a base of cement and rocks, a sheet metal roof - which will welcome those who come to Pourcine for the children's school and adult literacy, for a little health care, hosted until now in the very humble "parish house", of a few square meters ...

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NP December 2024