Deep Springs International

GlobalGiving Challenge

Joining the GlobalGiving Community: Expand Your Impact

Who:

Unlike a traditional foundation, GlobalGiving does not directly offer grants or support. Through its website, GlobalGiving connects individual and institutional donors directly to social, environmental, and economic development projects around the world. Read more about the value offered by GlobalGiving.

Since 2004, GlobalGiving has mobilized over $20 million in funding to more than 1,300 grassroots projects in over 90 countries. Our network is unparalleled, and has involved tens of thousands of regular citizens, over 500 social entrepreneurs, more than 50 global project sponsors, and many Fortune 500 companies (see our list of partners). 

 

 

 All Proceeds from the GlobalGiving Challenge wll be designated for the Les Cayes Replication Project.  Read more about this project and Deep Springs at www.deepspringsinternational.org. 

 

 

Why:

 

GlobalGiving partners with organizations like Deep Springs to increase visibility, accreditation, and donations.  Your one-time donation through the GlobalGiving website will multiply the impact Deep Springs will be able to have in Haiti. 

What:

$4,000 in 30 days through 50 people

Deep Springs must raise $4,000 between August 18th and September 18th through 50 seperate donations on our GlobalGiving webpage in order to earn a permanent spot on the GlobalGiving website.  

How Do I Help?

 1. Visit the GlobalGiving Website at www.GlobalGiving.com/3373

2. Donate at least $10 to the GlobalGiving Challenge.  All donations for this challenge will be designated for the Les Cayes Replication Program.* 

3. Watch for email updates on our progress. 

4. Tell all your friends and neighbors to help the people of Haiti through Deep Springs by giving on the GlobalGiving website. 

 *All proceeds donated to the GlobalGiving Challenge will be designated for the Les Cayes Replication Program.

*All donations are tax deductible. 

Deep Springs International is seeking permanent listing on Global Giving, a website that links donors like you to accredited projects world wide. All proceeds will benefit the Les Cayes Replication Project which is launching this week.  
 

Read the Latest Updates in our Summer Newsletter!

Michael Ritter, DSI President, far right

Deep Springs is partnering with Project Medishare for Haiti to start a Gadyen Dlo water program in Baille Touribe, Haiti.  Read more about the development of their project on the Project Medishare Blog.

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Read about the upcoming hurricane season here: http://www.miamiherald.com/582/story/1074002.html 

Haiti is in desperate need for a source of consistent clean water.  Help Deep Springs serve the people of Haiti with the ability to drink clean, pure water every day, even in a hurricane.

Get up to date information on fundraising, daily information on Haiti progess, and much more!

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Deep Springs is replicating the Jolivert Safe Water for Families Program in Les Cayes, Haiti.  Not only will Deep Springs continue to provide integral education in health and business in seven Les Cayes schools in the region, Deep Springs is striving to serve 13,000 households in the area with access to affordable safe drinking water.  Read on to learn more about the program and how you can help!

 Chlorine Production 
Deep Springs is excited to announce that we are launching our Replication Site Campaign!  DSI is replicating the Jolivert Safe Water for Families program. This program entails setting up a production site for Gadyen Dlo, a chlorine product, and a distribution system for getting the product out to over 13,000 families in the Les Cayes region.  DSI seeks to provide a sustainable solution to significantly reduce child deaths caused by unsafe water in Haiti.  Through this expansion we are moving one step closer to reaching all of rural Haiti with a solution that will last.

Integral Education 
Our school program is also located in the Les Cayes area.  Our DSI school program manager, Coicy Franky, is supervising 14 teachers in seven schools where over 500 students will finish their first year in our educational program in June.  They are being taught health and water treatment as well as small business skills.  These students are bringing home information about safe water to their families which is not only teaching the community about health issues and safe water, but also creating a market base to which the resellers of Gadyen Dlo will sell their product as the replication site takes off. 

We Need Your Help!

It costs Deep Springs $10 to bring a new family of five into the Gadyen Dlo program.  This provides a modified 5-gallon water storage bucket with spigot, a bottle of Gadyen Dlo, and training by a local health worker or technician in the process and importance of utilizing chlorine to treat water.  This one-time cost improves the life of a Haitian family permanently! Due to the affordable cost of Gadyen Dlo  the family will have safe water to drink.

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Last fall, Deep Springs International received the Templeton Freedom Award in the category of Social Entrepreneurship — Emerging Enterprises. The Templeton Freedom Awards are given annually in eight different categories by the Atlas Economic Research Foundation. Recipients of the Social Entrepreneurship Award are chosen based on outstanding research and innovative projects on social entrepreneurship to benefit the poor, and the general building of a sound, strong, civil society. One hundred and seventy organizations from 58 countries applied for this award in 2008. Deep Springs was chosen because of the organization’s strong vision and goals as well as the impact DSI is making in Haiti.

The Rotary International hosted a Clean Water Summit conference December 14th-15th in Petion-Ville (near Port-au-Prince) Haiti. This was an international conference featuring the Haitian Prime Minister Jacques Edouard Alexis and Rotary International President Wilf Wilkinson as keynote speakers.

The topics in this conference were organized around the two most difficult challenges in clean water programs today (1) How to keep projects operating effectively over time and (2) How to scale projects up to be regional or national in size. Using the landscape of problems and opportunities for clean water in Haiti’s schools and households, the Summit examined these two most elusive goals : sustainability and scalability. (more…)