Rochester Youth Global Water Summit Team Orange Presents… The Haitian Water Crisis

Could You Imagine… C

Credibility For the past two weeks, our team has prepared for this presentation through: Daily classes and activities about water Laboratory experiments testing for water turbidity, nitrates, and pH Learning the background of Haitian water problems Using new research skills and resources

Water Related Health Issues Haitian water is filled with… Sewage Garbage Chemicals Sediments Organisms These contaminants lead to the following water-borne diseases…

 Hepatitis E  Typhoid  Dengue  Malaria  Leptospirosis  Diarrhea  Hepatitis  Cholera  Dysentery  Chemical Exposure Cryptosporidium Giardiasis E. Coli Legionnaires Shigella Giardia

Statistics 84% of Haitians use unclean water every day 65% of Haitians don’t have adequate access to clean water Only 55% have access to an improved water source Annually, there are 8,173 deaths due to cholera in Haiti

Water Solution Proposal Our team proposes that through a combination of aid and education, Haiti’s water problem can be corrected in the long term. Aid: providing money, resources, and medicine Education: teaching hygiene, water management and filtration

Aid

Clean Water Providers to Haiti American Red Cross o Making sure they have clean water, food, and money to rebuild. o They give them first aid training to help those who get sick from cholera and other diseases. Clean Water for Haiti (CWH) o Faith based, volunteer run mission that help homes to obtain clean water by using water filters. These programs help provide clean filtered water to the citizens of Haiti.

Did you know? “70% do not have direct access to potable water” The Center for Human Rights and Global Justice. TheWaterProject.org – non-profit organization. Only 24% of urban residents and 10% of rural residents do not have access to clean water in other areas of the country. An estimated 80% live below the global poverty line. Water.org Goals and Objectives Increase the level of access to sustainable and safe water and decrease the prevalence of water related diseases.

Quotes “ The rock in the water does not know the pain of the rock in the sun, ” Haitian Proverb. “If you drink water in the glass, respect the glass,” Haitian Proverb.

Haitian Hygiene and Sanitation Education

Educational Constraints Faced by Haitians  50% of school aged children in Haiti are not enrolled in school  One-third of girls never go to school  Approximately 30% of kids in primary school won’t make it to 3 rd grade  60% will quit school before they reach the sixth grade. They will usually end up spending 2-3 hours a day getting water.

 The cost of sending one child to school for a year is a minimum of $200 for a year and on average $350  Haiti’s literacy rate is 52.9% Education Statistics Continued

 International Medical Corps  Oxfam American  These organizations are known as NGO’s (Non- Government Organizations)  These organizations come in and provide disaster relief that includes water hygiene and sanitation education. “Good hygiene practices can’t be adopted overnight, but we’re doing utmost to get hygiene information out to as many people as possible.” –Rapheal Mutiku (Oxfam's water and sanitation director in Haiti) Organizations Helping Haiti With Water Hygiene Education

Bad Practices That Contribute to Water Contamination  In 2009 there was a Cholera outbreak in Port-au-Prince.  During the outbreak 19,640 people were sick; 1,186 were killed according to Oxfam America.  A vast amount of money is needed for public health education.  Following the 2010 earthquake, some medical institutions didn’t correctly dispose of human remains. This is one of the leading causes of the contamination of Haiti’s water supply.

Possible Solutions To Haiti’s Hygiene and Sanitation Education Problems  Most water hygiene and sanitation education is provided by NGO’s, providing relief in response to a disaster.  A possible solution would be for those NGO’s to educate native Haitians on how to pass that knowledge on to others once the NGO’s depart.  Limited access to education in Haiti overall is a problem. Aid money should be put towards achieving the millennium development goal, of universal primary education created by the UN.

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In Conclusion… Charities: International Rescue Committee, Care Charities etc. The first year after the Cholera outbreak, over 5,000 Haitians died. Within three years of the outbreak, 8,400 Haitians died. More than 685,000 have become ill due to unclean and contaminated water. Approximately 50% of health related illnesses in Haiti are a result of their water. The outbreak in Haiti has been classified as the worst world wide.

Something to Think About In the years before widespread drinking water chlorination, tens of thousands of Americans died every year from water- borne disease. Just as they are now in Haiti. You have the power to help, will you? Would you live like this? Could you walk miles in their shoes?

Water For Haiti

Brought to you by Rochester Community 7 th Graders including: Timani Bowens Jaden Brown Shalese Cotton Ta’von Jones Jamisha Joseph Jailah Lovett Isaiah Meade N’Dia Neal  Jonathan Rogers  Zaira Rolle-Knox  Tatiana Santos  Willow Singletary  Myanna Smith  Erica White  Karina Zayas