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April 3, 2006

Integrated Development Project in Northwest Artibonite, Haiti

Following Hurricane Jeanne, which hit Haiti in October 2004, AMURT sent a team to northwest Artibonite, thirty-five kilometers north of Gonaives, to provide cooked meals to the hurricane survivors. With food provided by the World Food Program, we opened five centers feeding over 2,000 people daily, primarily children and the elderly. The program lasted 7 months, and benefited 8 of the villages hardest hit by the Hurricane.

Given the deprivation of this area, we decided to commit to a long-term development program to help bring hope where there was little. Our surveys of the village of Point-de-Mangles indicated that 60% of the youth had relocated elsewhere, looking for opportunities that were non-existent in their native place.

AMURT has since undertaken the following programs:

Rehabilitation of existing water supply systems
Repair and construction of roads
Setting up of local workshops to manufacture and install domestic bio-sand filters
Reforestation, watershed management and organic farming
Rehabilitation of salt mines
Construction of new irrigation canals
Set up and support of village cooperatives lending seeds and tools to farmers

AMURT has focused on capturing water previously wasted, and bringing it to nearby communities where systems of reservoirs, basins, and water stations help conserve and distribute it more efficiently. This photo shows the installation of water lines near Source Chaudes

This is the first drinking water fountain AMURT built in the marketplace at Source Chaudes. Since then, many villages have sent delegations to AMURT requesting the innovatively designed fountain to be constructed in their own villages.


	AMURT has focused on capturing water previously wasted, and bringing it to nearby communities where systems of reservoirs, basins, and water stations help conserve and distribute it more efficiently. This photo shows the installation of water lines near Source Chaudes	AMURT together with the World Food Program are constructing roads linking previously isolated mountain villages with the plains. The road project has proven to be extremely popular. This particular section of road between Laobe and Tite Place is 2 kms long, and traverses steep ravines and rocky mountain slopes.

For more information on our work in Haiti please visit our website:

http://www.amurt.net/haiti/index.html

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