We are receiving regular updates from the community in Grande Saline and we hear that the people are very happy to have clean water to drink. The operators are successfully running the system for six hours each day and many people are coming for water. They are filling buckets and bottles from the system instead…
I am so happy and excited to report that the Health for Haiti team has successfully installed the Pall Aria AX1 microfiltration system in Grande Saline and the people in this community now have clean water to drink! Paula Stapf, Tom Collart, Esterling Accime and Joseph Johnson (JJ) have been working hard this week and…
Computer classes continue in Grande Saline and the school is adding more students. The solar equipment installed by the 2015 Health for Haiti class is working well and the new table allows ten or more children to work at the same time. I am happy to report that the community in Grande Saline has decided…
Some of the students at the Grande Saline computer school have completed the Level 1 computer literacy training and were recently awarded certificates from their teacher, Tida. The Level 1 computer literacy training documents were created and provided by the Bridging the Digital Divide Program, and were translated into Haitian Creole by SUNY Broome student…
The kids at La Feve school in Port au Prince are making great progress with their computer lessons. They have five computers to use at their school and the teacher has one computer. The computers were donated by Geodis and Pall and refurbished by BDDP volunteer, Jack Rappaport. The children are learning from the BDDP…
Here are a few recent pictures of students at a computer class in Grande Saline. It is nice to see that awesome solar power panel in the background! Previously, class had to be cancelled when there was no fuel for the generator or when the generator was not working. Even though there was some rain in Grande Saline this week,…
Tom Collart (AKA my Dad) went to Haiti this weekend to continue work on the Pall AX1 water filtration system. He, JJ, Schneider and Esterling worked very hard and successfully completed all of the work that they hoped to accomplish! They repaired the compressor, rewired the pump, made the necessary cuts in the shelter (container)…
Computer classes continue in Grande Saline! There are now 85 children and 45 young adults taking classes at the newly expanded computer lab. The Grande Saline computer center has fifteen laptops (donated by Geodis, Pall and Professor Sandy Wright and the SUNY Broome Business Information Technology Department). The laptops were refurbished and set up by…
Children in Cite Soleil are busy working in their newly expanded computer lab. Using training documents provided by the Bridging the Digital Divide Program (BDDP) and translated into Haitian Creole by SUNY Broome student Shaina Louis, the Haitian students are learning basic computer literacy and continuing to master PowerPoint in preparation for their exchange with the children…
Today was our “Recognition and Reflection Ceremony”, marking the official end of our 2015 Health for Haiti Class. We were fortunate to have Dr. Francis Battisti, SUNY Broome Executive Vice President and Chief Academic Officer, to serve as the Master of Ceremonies for our final class meeting. The students did a wonderful job giving presentations…