For the children of Haiti, clean water is in very short supply. Many community wells are contaminated, nutritious food is scarce, and children are dying from disease, starvation, malnutrition, and dehydration. A grant of US$20,000 from The Prem Rawat Foundation (TPRF) to the Mercy and Sharing Foundation will provide seven thousand villagers with fresh water for one year and finance water wells at a new nutrition, education, and orphanage facility north of Port-au-Prince.

According to the Mercy and Sharing report, “The children of Haiti are dying at an alarming rate from disease, starvation, malnutrition and dehydration. Haiti is the eighth poorest country on the planet and the poorest in the Western Hemisphere. There is a lack of clean drinking water and basic nutrition. The water in many community wells is loaded with contaminants, causing people to drink a minimal amount, which often results in chronic dehydration. The lack of clean water for hygiene is in very short supply. Nutrition from food is also lacking, as more than 80% of the population lives in abject poverty.”

The grant from TPRF will provide 5,170 people in villages with fresh water for one year; maintain a well that will aid an additional 300–500 people; and dig two new water wells to aid an estimated additional 1,500 people at the Williamson Project. The Williamson Project is a new 70,000 sq. ft. facility north of Port-au-Prince that has two orphanages, a nutrition center and chapel, a physical therapy center, an elementary and high school, a trade school, a storehouse and volunteer facilities.

Linda Pascotto, President of TPRF, says, “Our hearts go out to the children and people of Haiti, who suffer from such severe malnutrition, dehydration, and disease. It is part of our mission to help provide human beings with the simple basics in life—clean water to drink, to cook with, to bathe in, and basic nutrition—in hopes of living a better life and with dignity.”

According to Susie Krabacher, Founder and President of Mercy and Sharing, “We find these children in such despair, with so little hope and life. To save all of them would be impossible, but that is our goal. Every day Mercy and Sharing strives to impact the lives of the children of Haiti, to save them from certain death, and to give them hope for the future. Thanks to the help from The Prem Rawat Foundation, we can come a little closer to our goal.”

Photographs Courtesy of Mercy & Sharing Foundation

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