Yesterday Jen did a short presentation at our church about Thriving Villages and received about $170 from the children who collected money during the recent Vacation Bible School. That's pretty awesome!! Thanks to the VBS coordinators, and Deborah Saline in particular, for their work on collecting the donations for Haiti!!
I had the opportunity to speak with Gigi Pomerantz yesterday who is the director of Youthaiti,org. She has been involved in the southernmost region of Pestel called Duchity where she has been involved largely in the fight against cholera as well as developing options for improved sanitation. We had a really good discussion about the needs in Pestel as well as possibilities of collaborating.
On a sad note, Duchity made the news recently when a vehicle tried to cross the swollen River Glaz and resulted in the deaths of up to 40 people.
The river quite literally runs over the road and you have to drive through it in order to travel from Les Cayes to Pestel. Obviously, an engineering solution is needed to improve this situation.
On this map you can see a faint white line at the bottom-middle that travels up into the pink-red zone (Section 5). This the road. Where the road meets two small dots is where Duchity is located and the River.
-- For those interested, the blue and green arrows/triangles on the map represent the candidate villages for the well-drilling project.
Within the next couple of weeks we are hopeful that the well-driller will be traveling out to Pestel for a site visit. This trip is very important because he'll determine whether a drill rig can navigate the roads or not. Please consider praying about this situation, and for wisdom for all who are developing this effort.
Ben
President, Thriving Villages International
Thriving Villages website
http://thrivingvillages.blogspot.com/
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