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LA FOSSE

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

La Fosse, Thomazeau,

Haiti

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Project Goal Construct 15 double-unit houses with sanitation facilities and a water cistern,

and provide 15 solar lamps for the poor families of La Fosse, Haiti.

Project Description

The La Fosse Community Development project aims to provide the poorest inhabitants of La Fosse with sturdy housing, sanitation facilities to improve their hygienic conditions, and water cisterns for access to potable water. Also, 15 solar light kits will be given to these families to provide a source of light for their new homes. This project is a portion of a larger, multifaceted initiative which seeks to drastically improve the community of La Fosse through the provision of safe housing, a water treatment unit, community center, and water well. Several small projects with multiple sources of funding are therefore being created to help address the overwhelming needs of this community.

This specific project will directly benefit 15 families through the provision of a double-unit house and solar lamp. A rain catchment system will be attached to the water cistern which will collect and store potable water for the families’ daily use. The sanitation units will greatly improve the hygienic conditions of the community.

The project will be implemented with help from the local community development organization Coudre à Coudre pour le Développement de La Commune

de Thomazeau (CODCT). It is anticipated that through these provisions, the lives of these families will be transformed, and hope will be inspired throughout the community.

Total Project Cost: $98,062.50

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An Overview of Haiti and La Fosse

Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. An estimated 80% of the population lives below the poverty line, searching for enough food to eat, clean water to drink, and a safe place to live.

Haiti is a bleak place for children. Two-thirds of all Haitian children suffer from malnutrition, and 117 of every 1,000 children die before reaching their fifth birthday. Life expectancy is a mere 51 years for men and 54 years for women.

Clean water for drinking, cooking and bathing is in short supply, which continues to fuel the spread of various waterborne diseases.

With so many families focused merely on survival, many Haitian children never get the chance to receive even a basic education. Haiti’s literacy rate is a dismal 53%. Food For The Poor began working to help the poor of Haiti in 1986. Today, the organization is one of the country’s largest providers of emergency relief and sustainable development projects. La Fosse is a community in the municipality of Thomazeau, located about 29 kilometers from the capital city of Port-au-Prince. La Fosse is a small, rural community with a hot, arid climate. The topography there is very flat. Typically, the residents in this region are very poor, living on less than $1.00 per day by means of subsistence farming.

Like most communities in this poor region of Haiti, the residents of La Fosse live in deplorable housing conditions. Their homes are often constructed of discarded materials, such as rusty zinc sheets, dried mud, straw, and old wood. This kind of makeshift shelter cannot protect them against bad weather, especially the rain. Most families sleep on the dirt floor, which turns to mud during a heavy rain fall. This prevents them from sleeping when it rains, which is particularly difficult during Haiti’s rainy season.

Access to safe drinking water is another critical problem for the community of La

Fosse. Although there is a canal that runs through the community, this water is contaminated and salty. The families attempt to filter out the salt and contamination by digging a hole near the canal and collecting the water that seeps through, but this procedure is ineffective. Also, because there are no sanitation facilities in La Fosse, residents dispose of their human waste outside their makeshift homes and near the canal, and the resulting runoff further contaminates their drinking water.

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Because of these critical needs, Food For The Poor and Coudre à Coudre pour le Développement de La Commune de Thomazeau have developed the La Fosse Community Development project. The deplorable conditions described above are consequences of extreme poverty; poverty that must be combatted and stopped. Through this project, the lives of these families will be transformed and hope will be restored. We hope you will join us as we seek to help these needy families, regardless of religious, political or social predispositions or affiliations.

GPS Coordinates: 18° 37' 44.4" N 72° 4' 44.39" W

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The typical housing conditions in La Fosse

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The residents of La Fosse

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Many children in this region suffer from malnutrition

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This contaminated canal serves as the community’s only water source

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Pictured below are other homes in Haiti built through the generosity of our kind donors. Please partner with us so we can help make this a reality

for the families of La Fosse!

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Budget

QTY DESCRIPTION AMOUNT TOTAL

15 FFP double-unit homes with sanitation and water cisterns $ 6,400.00 $ 96,000.00

15 Solar lanterns $ 125.00 $ 1,875.00

TOTAL PROJECT COST $ 97,875.00

FFP Reporting and Supervision Expense $ 187.50

GRAND TOTAL $ 98,062.50

The funds that you have generously contributed to Food For The Poor will be used toward

completion of the project that you have chosen to support. If any of your kind donation

exceeds budget cost, rest assured that it will be used to fund other Food For The Poor

projects designed to meet the urgent needs of the poor.

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About Food For The Poor

Food For The Poor, named by The Chronicle of Philanthropy as the largest international relief and development organization in the nation, and the sixth largest charity in America by Forbes, serves the poor throughout the Caribbean and Latin America. This interdenominational Christian ministry provides emergency relief assistance, clean water, medicines, educational materials, homes, support for orphans and the aged, skills training and micro-enterprise development assistance, with more than 95 percent of all donations going directly to programs that help the poor.