Extreme poverty in Haiti

The following is a description of extreme poverty in rural Fond-des-Blancs, Haiti, in the early 1980's.
Four measures of extreme poverty are: water, food, education, and medical care.  In the early 1980's,  Fond-des-Blancs had no clean water, children were dying of malnutrition, little education, and almost no medical care.

The first request from the people of Fond-des-Blancs was for clean water.  So the Haiti Christian Development Fund told the Fond-des-Blancs community that HCDF would supply the pipe to bring spring water down to the road if the people would supply the labor.  Soon Fond-des-Blancs had a good supply of clean, accessible water.

Thirty-five years later, HCDF is providing quality education for fifteen hundred students.  HCDF is providing a school lunch for fifteen hundred students with a farming project providing most of that food.  The Catholic church and the Kellogg Foundation are providing quality medical care for the Fond-des-Blancs community.

It may take a generation, but Christian Community Development can slowly but surely end extreme poverty.