Dirty water is killing our children. Beginning soon, we expect to launch a series of Rotary projects to promote "Clean Water for All Schools in Haiti." Why? Because teachers and students are ideal candidates to educate the community and to make clean water, hygiene, and sanitation a part of daily life in Haitian homes.

Much like Rotary's PolioPlus, we are forming partnerships with in-country organizations to help deliver clean water to our people - organizations like mission groups, peasant organizations, large employers, and governmental agencies.

Water projects are successful only to the extent that they improve the human condition. A project that performs well for a time but, for avoidable reasons, fails to produce its benefits over the long term is not the solution we're looking for. Nor is it a wise use of humanitarian funds.

How to design and implement sustainable projects is the most pressing challenge in clean water, today. The second is how to scale-up the delivery of clean water to meet the world's pressing need to stop water-borne diseases.

Using the landscape of problems and opportunities for clean water in Haiti's schools and households, the Summit will examine these two most elusive goals : sustainability and scalability.

With its expert presenters, handouts, and web site, the Summit is designed to provide you abundant information, contacts, and resources to work knowledgeably in clean water projects, whether simple or complex.

The Summit website is: Click to Open Web Page

All informations about the Summit program, registration, hotels, tours are available on the website.

For more information please write to: info@haitiwatersummit.org