Exciting News

August 7, 2011 (Translation)

Dear Marcia,

Hi. I am very happy to have received your email. And I await Caroline with much impatience. Please excuse me for this late response due to the fact I was with Chris McCrae for two installations of the potable water system, of which one is for Trouin. Now we that we have potable water in Trouin, I am the electrician for the system.

Caroline can meet the teachers beginning the 26th of September. Now one thing is certain: you can plan a date for the month of September. Father Michaud and I will do everything necessary [for her]. I thank you for your financial support for St. Marc School, especially the students who are incapable to go to school. May God in his infinite love protect and bless you more and more. This Sunday, the seventh of August [we will have] an inauguration of the potable water system in Trouin. I am going to send some photos next week.

My Christian salutations/greetings to all my friends at St. Francis, especially Gail and her family.

Salien

*As background, remember that after 6 long years of installation, the water system was finally completed sometime in early 2011. Way back in 2006, some of the Haitian Hope team members discovered the system which had been started around 2004 by a group from Luxembourg. The Catholic Church seemed to be the recipients of the money for the work on the spring, and we helped them out with $1,000, hoping to urge a forward direction toward providing clean water to Trouin. This spring we rejoiced when Ranny Moulton returned from a trip proclaiming that the water had arrived in Trouin; however, the people were not satisfied because now they had to pay for water, and it wasn't pure enough for Americans to drink. Père Michaud, at his own initiative, asked the Haiti Education Fund (Frances Landers' group) to provide the means to purify the water. They agreed and included the water purification components in the container carrying the building materials for construction of the school. Voilà. We now have some purified water!