Re: Press Release Source: Dumarsais Simeus Campaign


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> A breath of fresh air.

Just found a reading on the Simeus Foundation:

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SIMÉUS FOUNDATION BRINGS CLEAN WATER SYSTEMS,
EW HOPE TO IMPOVERISHED HAITIAN VILLAGE
Clean water saves lives in Haiti


Pont-Sondé, Haiti – The Siméus Foundation and Gift of Water have joined
hands to provide clean drinking water to the 30,000 residents of
Pont-Sondé, Haiti. Haiti is one of the most water-deprived countries in
the world, where thousands of people die each year of water-borne
illnesses.


“We are privileged living in the United States to have clean, safe
drinking water at the turn of a tap. But hundreds of thousands of people
just off our shores lack this vital necessity. They suffer and die
unnecessarily from water-borne illness and disease. In fact,
contaminated drinking water represents eighty percent of all disease in
Haiti,” said Dumarsais Siméus, Founder of The Siméus Foundation, who was
born in Pont-Sondé.


“Children are perhaps the most at-risk. Every eight seconds, a child
dies of a waterborne disease and upwards of sixteen percent die before
they reach their first birthday. One-third of all Haitian children die
before they reach the age of five. This is an urgent and heart-wrenching
situation. These are preventable, unnecessary deaths and I vow to help
alleviate that suffering in any way I can,” continued Siméus.


“Quite simply, clean drinking water will save thousands and thousands of
lives,” Siméus added.


In this donation, which arrived April 2005, The Siméus Foundation and
Gift of Water provided 150 home water purification systems and began an
intensive local water project training course to ensure its long-term
effectiveness. An additional 1900 purifiers will be distributed over the
next 4 years. Providing the home water filtration systems is phase one
of The Siméus Foundation’s plans for the Pont Sondé Clean Water Project.
The second phase of the project encompasses drilling wells for the
community so that every person has easy access to a water source.


“There are two major reasons why Gift of Water has had long term
success,” said Phil Warwick, Gift of Water. “First, the home water
purification systems are easy to use. Secondly, and perhaps most
importantly, we involve the community in leading, planning and executing
the entire clean water project.”


Engaging the community takes on many roles. A five member Water Hygiene
Committee is elected by the people in the community to oversee the
project, and local residents are hired as health care workers to train
the community on how to use the home water purification systems and
audit their effectiveness. For this project in Pont-Sondé, twenty health
care workers will be hired and trained.



“This grassroots approach to community involvement helps ensure that the
clean water systems are used correctly to maximize the health benefits,”
said Lamothe Lormier of Gift of Water, who provides counsel and
technical expertise to the Pont- Sondé community. “The local residents
of the community feel ownership and pride in what they have
accomplished. They also quickly see how clean water drastically improves
the quality of life for their family, friends and neighbors.”


“We are privileged to be working with Gift of Water, an organization
that has successfully provided water filtration systems to thousands of
families in Haiti and Jamaica for the past 15 years,” Siméus said. “I am
immensely grateful to them for helping me fulfill my personal mission to
bring immediate assistance and improved health to the families of
Pont-Sondé and beyond.


The Siméus Foundation also operates a medical clinic in Pont Sondé that
treats upwards of 400 patients a month. To find out more about this
501c3 organization, visit The Siméus Foundation at
www.simeusfoundation.org.




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