Surge and ASSLHA Fight COVID-19 in Haiti
Haiti, often considered the poorest country in the Western hemisphere, recorded its first cases of COVID-19 on March 19. As of April 16, there have been 41 confirmed cases within the country’s [...]
Clean Water Allows Student to Finish High School
For most of his life, Jacquet Duclair has suffered from stomach pains and diarrhea. His family didn’t have a water filter, and so they drank water from a local spring without purifying it. [...]
Soap Sparks Jobs, Sanitation in Cayes-Jacmel, Haiti
For the 36,000 people living in Cayes-Jacmel, Haiti, there are little choices for jobs. The economy is based on subsistence farming, fishing, handicrafts, and tourism. Young boys in downtown [...]
Distributing Soap and Filters in Cayes-Jacmel
Surge’s model involves forming strong partnerships with the communities we work in. We believe that in order to make a significant, transformational difference, we have to gain deep insight to [...]
Six Days in Haiti
My six days in Haiti by no means made me a “changed” person. It didn’t make me an expert on the problems the country faces. My trip also did not make me an authority on Haiti’s land — its wild [...]