In 2005, a plan was formulated to provide fresh water to the poor people of Cité Soleil.

The St. Nicholas Knights of Columbus Council
#12520 of New Market,Minnesota purchased a semi-tractor and trailer  equipped with two stainless steel tanks capable of  holding 3500 gallons of water.

Haiti contaminated water problems
Haitian children drink dirty water

The number one cause for  illnesses is the lack of clean water and our water deliver program brings life-saving  water daily to those in need.  Fresh drinking water is obtained from deep wells and trucked to the areas of need.

Dirty contaminated water in Haiti is one of the greatest causes of malnutrition. Bacteria and parasites in dirty water can cause severe diarrhea which flushes needed nutrients from the bodies of children causing malnutrition and even death?

Our water truck operates six days a week making four deliveries too many areas in Cite Soleil and reaching numerous impoverished families where the local people carry the water home in 5 gallon buckets.


We need your support for this clean water campaign in Haiti

With your help, we can affect thousands of lives, for they can not afford to purchase the water on their own, without the water we supply to these impoverished people they can not survive. As of 2008 to 2011, our water truck has delivered 14,000 gallons of fresh water six days a week.


We purchased the clean water for the citizens of the slums, who live in shacks and sleep on the ground. They live in the poor shanty town of Cite Soleil, Haiti, women, children and men beg to have water truck stop near their shack so they can get clean water for their families.


Have you ever begged for water?

  What if you needed to walk over 20 minutes, with a 40lbs. five gallon bucket on your head, 2-3 times a day for your family and you were 8 years old?

With your help we are providing Life Saving access to clean water for Haitian families,

Clean water can truly be the difference between life and death for many children in Cite Soleil.




Clean water is the foundation for life

Haiti clean water crisis -  It is only with your help, that free chlorinated water can be delivered to one of the poorest slums in the western hemisphere.

This red truck provides a life line too many that live in extreme poverty by making six water runs a day delivering clean chlorinated water. Bucket by bucket people bring this water back to their homes.

Each load brings 3500 gallons of water, enough for 700 families. Clean water can truly be the difference between life and death for many children in Cite Soleil.

Can you imagine a day without drinking water – bathing water – cooking water?

Your donation keeps this truck running and water flowing to those in need.

Can you help the water truck that delivers 364,000 gallons of chlorinated water every month?

With a monthly budget of $2,000, we deliver 73,000 five gallon buckets to the poorest of poor, while at the same time employing four Haitians to drive the truck and provide for their families.


Photographer Richard Tsong-Taatarii, Star Tribune




Have you ever had parched lips?

What if your children had bacteria and parasites living in their stomachs causing severe diarrhea and malnutrition from drinking water out of the sewer?

This is the daily reality for many in Cite Soleil, Haiti.