Day 5 - La Romana (2/6/14)

Today was a day off for the Providence Rotary work team.  It was a wonderful day of rest and relaxation before we go back to work on the latrines again tomorrow. 

We wanted to explain what other team members are doing here on the bateys.  For the past 5 years Rotarians have been coming to bateys in la romana and installing HydrAid water filters.  As part of the rotary grant to install the filters we need to come back and make sure that the filters are working properly and that the filters are continuing to provide clean drinking water to the residents.  Recently it has also been brought up that the sugar factories are putting chlorine in the water to prevent cholera.  Therefore it is extremely important to make sure that the water that is going to the bateys and the residents are drinking does not have the chlorine in it.  For the past 4 days, 4 members of our team have been taking samples from water filters on 6 bateys  and growing the samples....tomorrow we will have the results from all the testing.  Hopefully the filters are working and doing what it should be - providing clean drinking water for all on the bateys.

 

Tomorrow the Providence Rotary Team will be going to Mercedes Laura Aguiar School to deliver the 60 Spanish English Dictionaries from our club!!!