Last fall, our Global Travelers club collaborated with the Rotary Club of Minneapolis Uptown on a solar well project in two communities in Haiti. On June 25, these two communities — Lakos Jean Louis and Pas Kayimit — celebrated the inauguration of their new wells.
The Minneapolis Uptown club partnered with the Rotary Club of Pignon, Haiti, and hired Haiti Outreach, a Minneapolis-based non-profit to carry out the work.
Haiti Outreach has created more than 500 rural community-managed wells in the country of Haiti in the last 26 years. These have always been hand pump wells, requiring people to physically pump the well handle to obtain the subsurface water. The goal of this project was to replace a hand-pump with a solar-powered electric submersible pump in two communities. The communities were chosen based on their success in maintaining their hand-pump wells and sharing the cost across their communities.
Rotary Global Travelers contributed $500 to this $17,000 project. Another example of the Magic of Rotary to leverage all of our dollars.
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