It has been a pleasure to partner with GivePower and WISH - West Indies Self Help to build a solar powered water desalination plant in La Gonâve, Haiti. The plant started making and selling water for the community this week, making 20,000 gallons of water per day from salt water using a Spectra Watermakers LB-20000 reverse osmosis water treatment system, 50 kW solar panels and TeslaPowerwall. Not only will the community now have a reliable access to clean water, but the only local hospital on La Gonâve will have reliable clean water, too - which is always vital but becomes even more critical during a pandemic.

The solar-powered water desalination & distribution center in Haiti, now open for business!

Our CHAMPS team was asked by the Sierra Leone Ministry of Health to serve as the primary partner supporting a COVID-19 response in the Bombali District, supporting a population of 700,000. Among other things, we are now providing surveillance strength by employing our trained staff to investigate all cases of potential COVID-19, monitor all facilities, place positive case families and contacts in quarantine, monitor those in quarantine, facilitate testing, provide technical health support at isolation centers, and help to provide technical support in establishing the treatment centers in Bombali.

WHI distributed hand washing stations & liquid soap to our child. Sponsorship partner schools to join the government on preparedness in the fight against COVID-19. Children were also taught to wash their hands thoroughly & advised on basic hygiene practices.

Our Cambodia team went house to house in March to have COVID awareness conversations in their communities. Cambodia’s poorest will not have access to good health care when COVID-19 comes to those areas. No one would even expect tests, treatment and ventilation. #COVIDConversations will save lives!

Holding #CovidConversations in Cambodia

If you are interested in the Get-Support product but missed the launch event last week, you can view the recording here: https://worldhope.org/get-support-now-a-virtual-product-launch/

Check out the recording from the Get-Support launch event to learn more about it!

We've produced an online platform called “Get-Support," powered by Disaster Tech, where users in communities can submit and respond to requests for assistance from each other. We'll be rolling it out soon - stay tuned.

Want more details on ways that we are addressing COVID-19 as well as how we have handled other infectious diseases and outbreaks? Learn more here: https://www.worldhope.org/project/covid-19/