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The Jolivert, Haiti Safe Water for Families Project
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Worldwide, over 1.1 billion people do not have access to improved
drinking water
and hundreds of
millions more drink contaminated water from improved sources because
of unsafe water storage and handling practices. The health
consequences of unsafe drinking water include an estimated 2 million
deaths per year from diarrhea, mostly in young children in developing
countries.
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In Haiti, approximately half of the over 8 million people do not have access to improved
drinking water supplies, and access their water from sources such as this river,
carrying it back to their households in contaminated buckets. The
under-5 mortality rate in Hait is 120/1000 live births. Put in
simpler terms, for every 100 children born in Haiti, 12 will die
before the age of 5.
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The Jolivert Safe Water for Families (JSWF) project
works in northern, rural Haiti to provide safe water to families using the CDC Safe Water System.
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The JSWF project trains families:
- To use locally-generated chlorine solution to treat their water at the household level
- To store their water safely in a modified locally-available storage container
- About water, sanitation, and hygiene practices to keep the household more sanitary
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The goal of the JSWF project is to reduce child mortality in Haiti.
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