Adopt a Village Assessments
2012
The Adopt-A-Village initiative gained momentum in the Fall of 2011, when a short-term team of CEDC students began assessing villages around the Central Plateau. This initiative was continued and completed in the Summer of 2012, after which ...Arcahaie Water System
2014
One of CEDC’s few projects outside the Central Plateau, the Arcahaie Water System project consisted of upgrading an old water treatment system for an orphanage in Arcahaie, Haiti (just north of Port-Au-Prince). CEDC partnered with Children’s Lifeline, an NGO out of Kentucky, to finance and implement ...Ba Cange Water System
2015
The Cange Water System carries water from Ba Cange to the greater Cange area where it is treated and distributed to the residents of the community that live along National Route 3. However, clean water is not returned to the community of Ba Cange ...Belle Aire Triage Water Treatment
The Belle Aire Triage Water Treatment project is part of the Adopt-A-Village initiative of one of our chief partners, the EDUSC (Episcopal Diocese of Upper South Carolina). 19 villages in the central plateau surrounding Cange were visited, and assessed for current water facilities and conditions. Belle Aire was ...
Biodigesters
Those living in developing countries often do not have a proper way to dispose and treat human waste, leading to rampant spread of diseases such as cholera. In Haiti, most people openly defecate or use pit latrines. Because of this, fecal matter contaminates the water supply. Biodigesters provide a way to sustainably treat waste and prevent disease. They retain and break down solid waste through anaerobic digestion and then release methane and a nutrient-rich effluent.