Founder's Notes - January

January 18, 2018  

Dear Friends,                                                                  

I just returned from Les Cayes last week. Delightful warm sunny days in the tropical climate. We had a health clinic where we saw roughly 92 families and distributed 120 smile kits.  Smile kits contain the Haitian luxury items of toothbrushes and toothpaste.  We give one to each family that participates in the health clinic and several for church members who provided us space for the clinic. The ongoing major health themes remain consistent—malnutrition, stomach issues (worms, digestive tract infections, etc.), cooking burns and respiratory infections. Our health team, a local doctor and four nurses, treat most of the identifiable short-term illnesses and refer more serious cases to the local hospital. 

A thank you for the Quad District Professional Development Day on January 15th at Northern Highlands Regional High School n Allendale.  The on-site professional collected for a packed over 700 smile kits.  Also laminated over 300 Creole Water Filter instruction boletes during their day of Service…. Many Thanks for all your efforts.

The local GT Water team continues to distribute 50 to 100 water filters per week. During my trip, we spent an afternoon distributing filters and educating recipients on how to use them. There is an overwhelming positive feeling of gratitude from the filter recipients. Realizing that you have just changed over 50 families lives forever by giving them the ability to have clean water brings a true sense of giving back and making a difference. 

We will post the upcoming water filter distribution location schedule on our blog www.gtwater.org during the next week.  Our next trip is scheduled for  February 26th, please let us know if you would like to come?

Thank you for your continued support of this life-changing project.

Carl