Michael Ritter, DSI President, far right

Deep Springs is partnering with Project Medishare for Haiti to start a Gadyen Dlo water program in Baille Touribe, Haiti.  Read more about the development of their project on the Project Medishare Blog.

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 Chlorine Production 
Deep Springs is excited to announce that we are launching our Replication Site Campaign!  DSI is partnering with Maison de Naissance, a birthing clinic in Les Cayes, Haiti, to replicate the Jolivert Safe Water for Families program. This program entails setting up a production site for Gadyen Dlo, a chlorine product, and a distribution system for getting the product out to over 13,000 families in the Les Cayes region.  DSI seeks to provide a sustainable solution to significantly reduce child deaths caused by unsafe water in Haiti.  Through this expansion we are moving one step closer to reaching all of rural Haiti with a solution that will last.

Integral Education 
Our school program is also located in the Les Cayes area.  Our DSI school program manager, Coicy Franky, is supervising 14 teachers in seven schools where over 500 students will finish their first year in our educational program in June.  They are being taught health and water treatment as well as small business skills.  These students are bringing home information about safe water to their families which is not only teaching the community about health issues and safe water, but also creating a market base to which the resellers of Gadyen Dlo will sell their product as the replication site takes off. 

We Need Your Help!

It costs Deep Springs $10 to bring a new family of five into the Gadyen Dlo program.  This provides a modified 5-gallon water storage bucket with spigot, a bottle of Gadyen Dlo, and training by a local health worker or technician in the process and importance of utilizing chlorine to treat water.  This one-time cost improves the life of a Haitian family permanently! Due to the affordable cost of Gadyen Dlo, for less than five dollars per year there-after the family will have safe water to drink.

Allied News Brings Deep Springs to Front Page

On April 18th, 2009 the Allied News featured Deep Springs on their front page with an article written by Andrew Carranza entitled “Not a Drop to Drink.”  The article focused on Deep Springs unique and sustainable answer to the water crisis in Haiti. To read the article click here:  Allied News Article ]]> http://deepspringsinternational.org/deep-springs-featured-allied-news/feed/ http://deepspringsinternational.org/dsi-spring-2009-newsletter-published/ http://deepspringsinternational.org/dsi-spring-2009-newsletter-published/#comments Fri, 06 Mar 2009 06:52:40 +0000 ruth http://deepspringsinternational.org/?p=270 Click here to read Deep Spring International’s latest newsletter

   Winners of the Atlas Foundation’s Sixteen Templeton Freedom Awards.

Last fall, Deep Springs International received the Templeton Freedom Award in the category of Social Entrepreneurship — Emerging Enterprises. The Templeton Freedom Awards are given annually in eight different categories by the Atlas Economic Research Foundation. Recipients of the Social Entrepreneurship Award are chosen based on outstanding research and innovative projects on social entrepreneurship to benefit the poor, and the general building of a sound, strong, civil society. One hundred and seventy organizations from 58 countries applied for this award in 2008. Deep Springs was chosen because of the organization’s strong vision and goals as well as the impact DSI is making in Haiti.

The topics in this conference were organized around the two most difficult challenges in clean water programs today (1) How to keep projects operating effectively over time and (2) How to scale projects up to be regional or national in size. Using the landscape of problems and opportunities for clean water in Haiti’s schools and households, the Summit examined these two most elusive goals : sustainability and scalability.

Additional information can be found at the summit website.

DSI was able to make many connections to move the organization forward. Pictured below are conference attendees Bill Gallo, Daniele Lantagne (CDC), Ruth Dykstra (DSI President), Michael Ritter (DSI Vice President), Tim Mech (DSI Chairman of the Board), Joe Cicero (DSI board member).