If Pigs Could Fly - Helping Hillside Haiti
Mission
We are a small, grassroots 501-c3 (since 2001) that collaborates with a community in the mountains of rural Haiti. See many photos, and videos and updates on Our website: www.ifpigscouldflyhaiti.org On FaceBook: "Haiti Next Door" and "?If Pigs Could Fly Haiti" display much more. Shipping News, Ports and Roads Blocked: We carry on, "nou degaje," Our work in the mountains is ongoing despite the chaos in the Capital, the Republik of Port Au Prince. It's another country here in the mountains, but still.. Imports slowed. Livestock as well as people tighten belts, as always. The population hangs on, though crops diminished. The current home grown meager food supply has increased dependency on imported rice, even beans. World events, climate changes, threaten to bring this mountain community to it's knees...But not quite. Some how, rural Haitians degaje and carry on. Faith helps - theirs, and from you and me. Solar Power Pumps Water UpHill: We continue to provide paid work and training. Our team has implemented solar energy to replace human labor, with special pumps and PVC engineered to make the trek up winding hillsides to storage and faucets. This collaborative effort, with our local team of experts who know the territory, and our Stanford-students and volunteer engineers (who dream up plans, absent on-the-ground experience), has been in place since 2014. With a firm understanding of gravity and the Pythagorean team, our local experts have refined the Stanford dream and made it manifest and functional in the hills of rural Haiti. This system serves perhaps 80 households. "A dwop nan bokit", but still a drop.
If Pigs Could Fly - Helping Hillside Haiti
Mission
We are a small, grassroots 501-c3 (since 2001) that collaborates with a community in the mountains of rural Haiti. See many photos, and videos and updates on Our website: www.ifpigscouldflyhaiti.org On FaceBook: "Haiti Next Door" and "?If Pigs Could Fly Haiti" display much more. Shipping News, Ports and Roads Blocked: We carry on, "nou degaje," Our work in the mountains is ongoing despite the chaos in the Capital, the Republik of Port Au Prince. It's another country here in the mountains, but still.. Imports slowed. Livestock as well as people tighten belts, as always. The population hangs on, though crops diminished. The current home grown meager food supply has increased dependency on imported rice, even beans. World events, climate changes, threaten to bring this mountain community to it's knees...But not quite. Some how, rural Haitians degaje and carry on. Faith helps - theirs, and from you and me. Solar Power Pumps Water UpHill: We continue to provide paid work and training. Our team has implemented solar energy to replace human labor, with special pumps and PVC engineered to make the trek up winding hillsides to storage and faucets. This collaborative effort, with our local team of experts who know the territory, and our Stanford-students and volunteer engineers (who dream up plans, absent on-the-ground experience), has been in place since 2014. With a firm understanding of gravity and the Pythagorean team, our local experts have refined the Stanford dream and made it manifest and functional in the hills of rural Haiti. This system serves perhaps 80 households. "A dwop nan bokit", but still a drop.
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