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Primary schools ·
Secondary school Water cistern and school at Grand Anse Grand Anse is a tiny fishing village of about 50 families. It is on the ocean beach of the flat peninsula that forms the Bay of Baradères. The sister parish project, with foundation support, funded construction of a school and adjacent water cistern. Grand Anse residents have no local source of fresh water other than rain. But they like the area because the ocean fishery represents a source of income as well as protein. Until the cistern was completed in January 2001, residents had to drink rainwater collected in buckets or, more commonly, in natural potholes in the stony ground. Many livestock roam freely, grazing the sparse vegetation. |
Above: Livestock in
algae-filled malarial pond formed by rain.
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As a result, polluted water has been responsible for serious public health problems, in particular gastrointestinal distress and worms, leading to malnutrition. Engineers from St. John's helped design the cistern, which collects rainwater that enters a rain gutter around the roof of the adjacent school building. Until the fall of 2001, classes for the approximately 50 schoolchildren were held in a straw shack with a thatched roof. Now the children are using the new school building. Soon they would have benches and blackboards, as a result of a grant that SJB obtained to supply these for all 45 parish schools. |
Above: Villagers getting
fresh water from the new cistern.
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St. Pierre parish,
Baradères, Haiti
