Jodi Crimmel Reports on Her Trip to Haiti

At the Aug 10 Rotary Meeting, Tunkhannock Rotarian Jodi Crimmel reported on her spring trip to Haiti on missions with the Methodist Church’s Haiti Partnership, of which she is the co-chair. While in Haiti, Jodi also explored a possible water project that will be the subject of a Global Grant from the Tunkhannock Rotary.

Jean FilsAime is an engineer on our planned Rotary water project and will work along with the Jacmel Rotary President Jean Joseph Foregas. The Jacmel Rotary Club would be our cooperating Rotary Club in Haiti. The site is the village of Hermitage on the southern coast of Haiti and it takes 6 hr to get there from Port au Prince.

In 2007, Rotary paid for a large and small water cistern to be built with connections in between both. Our Tunkhannock Club contributed to this water project. Recently, Tunkhannock Rotary sent $1,800 to Haiti to build a fence to protect the overflow water coming from the smaller cistern.

Large (left) and small water cisterns

Our new Global project would be to add on to these cisterns, provide water to the school dorms and another community, and create a community garden.

Jodi Crimmel