This project provided hygiene, clean water filters, water testing, monitoring and support. to 69 homes on Ile Lambi off the coast of Haiti.
On Lambi Island there is no potable water source, and the nearest one is 4 hours away (3 hours by boat and then 1 hour on foot). Management Sciences for Health (MSH) conducted an initial needs and assets assessment that discovered that the people living on the island needed safe drinking water. As a result of the assessment, a new rainwater catchment system and storage tank was built and now provides up to 400 gallons of water for the island’s population. This water, which is untreated, presents a significant and immediate health risk which the ceramic filters will eliminated. The intervention also included hygiene and basic sanitation components, which empowered the people of Lambi Island through education and training in essential preventive public health measures such as hand-washing.
