Healthy food, Green Trees & Clean Water
With the proper care, HATT’s trees will produce fruit as well as trees for individuals and professionally managed orchards. HATT Foundation will provide different fruit species that have been developed and improved over the years to offer both a quality appearance and delicious taste to benefit the Haitian population. The trees’ fruit will be used for cooking, baking and eating fresh off of the tree. Everyone will attest to the superior taste of tree-ripened fruit. Besides planting and growing one or more species of our fruit trees, growers and admirers will also experience some of the most spectacular springtime flowering exhibitions in the plant world. HATT’s fruit trees will provide shade, food and visual enjoyment for many years to come, giving Haitian children hope. Fruit tree species tend to live a long life and will provide nutritious fruit as well as bountiful gardens for future generations.
In addition HATT Foundation is introducing sanitary waste water systems for the first time. Many of the rivers and lakes in Haiti are polluted and cholera is killing thousands of Haitians. People are getting sick from their only water source. Without the availability of large water cleaning systems the Haitians are forced to continue suffering from the usage of polluted water. Even boiling water before using it does not always remove the bacteria, metals and other pollutants to make it fully potable.
Haiti needs to have clean water-by-water filtering systems. Many Haitians do not have filtered water systems near their home. They live in very poor conditions under a government that historically has not provided water systems for clean drinking water, nor waste water for sewage systems. Over 70% of Haiti is still like this.
We who live in the United States and other parts of the advanced Western World fail to understand this. Haitian American Tree Trust, HATT Foundation, together with Haitian Evangelical Crusade Association,HECA, intends to build 9 Water Plants, complete with water filtration and waste water treatment systems for the poorest people of Haiti.
