Ouanaminthe Haiti Team Pilot Program

The first CitC Ouanaminthe Haiti Team has a successful Pilot Program.

With our inability to travel to Haiti in the Spring of 2023, we looked for another solution. After working with Rodne Dolcinard and Jacquessaint (Blanc) Antoine for 7 years, we decided to have them put together their own team and run a Pilot Program.

We were able to order the filter kits from our supplier, who now has a distributor in Central Haiti. The filters cost more, due to shipping and customs, but we didn’t incur any travel costs for an American Team. It took almost a month to get the filters delivered due to the violence in Port-au-Prince. But they were successfully delivered into our International Partners at the Ouanaminthe Rotary Club. All of the Club members were brought up to speed on the program. Then the filters were in turn delivered to Rodne and Blanc from the CitC Team.

Rodne and Blanc went ahead of time, to gather names of those that will be receiving the filters. They selected a couple of villages and met with leaders to establish when the filters would be delivered and installed into to 5-gallon buckets which each villager furnished.

Shown in photo (front to back): Joseph Alson, Louissaint Ertha, Antoine Jacquesaint, Rodne Dolcinord, Joseph Sonifka, Raphael Kensy, Borgeny Dolcinord. The team went through a training program, where they were all trained for each of the jobs that would be done at the distribution sites.

The Pilot Program was a huge success. A total of 250 filters were delivered between the villages. Enjoy the photos below.

The Pilot Program team ready to head to the field: Joseph Alson, Louissaint Ertha, Antoine Jacquesaint, Rodne Dolcinord, Joseph Sonifka, Raphael Kensy, Borgeny Dolcinord.

Ouanaminthe Rotary and Cit C Leaders meet

Rodne talks to Rotary about the Cit C program

Blanc hands out kits to Rotary members to look at

Rodne and Blanc Heading out to promote the program is several villages

Blanc trains team to drill the buckets for the filters

Blanc trains team to install the filter kit

Blanc trains team to backflush the filter if it is clogged

Training demonstration how use a plastic bottle adapter to back flush the filter

Team members take turns demonstrating the whole process to each other

Name tags for team members and their jobs for CitC

Team talking to villagers about how the distribution and training will be done

Villagers are lined up with their buckets to receive filters in them

This little guy just wanted watch the buckets being drilled

Team attach the cleaning instruction label to the back of a bucket

Team members train a group of recipients on how to maintain their filter

Instruction meeting inside and out of the sun

Villagers find shade while waiting their turn in line

A completed filter is handed back so the owner can go for training

Another training group at the next village

The set up is different at every village