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Haiti Unprepared in the Face of Resurgent Cholera

By bobbi dunphy | Published: May 10, 2012
PORT-AU-PRINCE, MAY 9, 2012—Cholera cases are on the rise in Haiti following the onset of the rainy season, and the country is not adequately prepared to combat the deadly disease, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today. While Haiti’s Ministry of Health and Populations claims to be in control [...]
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LGF Haiti partners with Sean Penn’s organization J/P HRO to bring Clean Water to College in Delmas 32

By bobbi dunphy | Published: February 9, 2012
LGF Haiti recently completed another clean water project in conjunction with Sean Penn’s organization, J/P HRO, at the College Toussaint Louverture in Delmas 32, Port au Prince. Funded by the World Bank (BMPAD) and managed by J/P HRO, this pilot project is part of The Helping People Home Initiative which aims to relocate families back to their [...]
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LGF Haiti Installs More Clean Water Kiosks in Port au Prince!

By bobbi dunphy | Published: February 7, 2012
LGF Haiti just installed more water kiosks here in Tabarre, Port au Prince in partnership with the American Refugee Committee and the American Red Cross. These kiosks will serve a total community of over 10,000 people. The kiosks are being powered by solar arrays, an exciting component of the implementation. The solar panels were generously [...]
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Potable Water makes La Difference

By bobbi dunphy | Published: June 26, 2011
On Sunday the 12th of June, 2011, LGF Haiti joined partners IOM and Green Venues to celebrate the official launch of Haiti’s first joint clean water and recycling initiative in Cite Soleil’s breathtaking community, La Difference. Self-motivated to create a clean and engaged neighborhood in one of Haiti’s most challenging slums, La Difference celebrated by [...]
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LGF water technology-changing lives in Haiti

By bobbi dunphy | Published: November 5, 2010
What’s the difference between clean water and unclean water? Well, add to that question the fact that someone will be drinking it and you get an unexpected answer: it’s quality of life. In order to begin to understand what this really means, lets consider two measures used to determine a population’s health liabilities, Years of [...]
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UN on situation in Haiti

By bobbi dunphy | Published: November 3, 2010
Excerpts from UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks to the General Assembly informal meeting on Haiti, in New York today, 3 December: Collective Efforts in Haiti Will Be Overwhelmed without Massive, Immediate Response, Secretary-General Warns in Remarks to General Assembly The challenges arising from the 12 Jan earthquake have been compounded by the needs arising from [...]
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Rapid Response Required : Cholera Outbreak

By bobbi dunphy | Published: October 22, 2010
An outbreak of cholera has exploded in the Artibonite region of Haiti. We have received reports that as of this morning, Friday Oct 22nd, there have been more than 2000 cases of acute watery diarrhea and already 160 deaths and mounting, at the facilities in St. Marc, Petite Riviere d’Artibonite, Mirebalais and Lascahobas; the death-rate [...]
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Rapid Response

By bobbi dunphy | Published: October 20, 2010
When we say Rapid Response and agile deployment what do we mean, and how do we attain it? Within weeks of the earthquake hitting Haiti on Jan 12, 2010, Jamieson Slough, COO of LifeGivingForce delivered four LGF Rapid Response 10,000UF units directly to the organizations we’d determined would put them to the best use. Though it’s true [...]
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75,000 liters a day…

By bobbi dunphy | Published: October 18, 2010
how much water is this?…It’s enough to keep 37,500 people alive. Should the unthinkable happen, just as it did in Haiti on January 12th, 2010, this kind of emergency water access can make the difference between an immediate disaster and an unfolding tragedy. Just one of the LGF Rapid Response 75000UF systems can rapidly deploy and [...]
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Access to clean water a Human Right – Secretary General Ban Ki Moon

By bobbi dunphy | Published: September 22, 2010
‘EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE ACCESS TO WATER AND SANITATION SERVICES THAT WE IN THIS ROOM TAKE FOR GRANTED,’ SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL ON PERSISTENT, PRESSING CHALLENGE Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks on “Addressing the Global Water and Sanitation Challenge: The Key to the MDGs”, in New York, today, 22 September: We are here because we know [...]
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