Help Haiti Reduce the Spread of Covid19

OUR CAUSE: 
Hospitals in Haiti for the most part do not have incinerators to burn medical waste.  Instead, infected materials are trucked to unsecured trash dumps putting entire communities at risk of infection.  The poorest of the poor survive by picking through dumps in search of anything of value that they can sell.  They also look for food that they eat and feed their families.  They frequently suffer from chronic respiratory illnesses, headaches and infections.  Throwing medical waste perhaps saturated with the Coronavirus, into the garbage dumps, will have a disastrous impact on the trash collectors and their families, as well as surrounding communities.


We plan to raise $92,000 for this Rotary Club project with the goal of placing incinerators at 5 public hospitals*.  As an emergency response, the project will decrease the spread of COVID-19 by protecting communities from infected medical waste.  This is also a sustainable project as the incinerators will be used during and after the current pandemic.  The incinerators will enable hospitals to provide care to Haiti's most vulnerable while protecting the environment and safeguarding communities from infectious diseases. 

Photo: Incinerator on-site. 


Photo: Dr. Claude Surena of the Rotary Club of Pétion-Ville (center) and team installing an incinerator.