The earthquake that destroyed much of Port-au-Prince, Haiti in January 2010 was a rallying point for humanitarian aid. MIDC and Embry-Riddle engineering students have established a program to help in a hands-on, tangible way. The desperate need for basic necessities like food, water, and shelter motivated us to respond with a strong desire to help.
The student chapter of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) promoted the effort and raised funds to build the Project Haiti 2010 water purifier. This unit was based on an earlier Civil Engineering department's senior design project and provided 1 gallon per minute (gpm) of clean water. One student and one faculty from Embry-Riddle joined a larger group's travel for the installation.
The following year, MIDC launched Project Haiti 2011, to assist an orphanage in desperate need for clean water. MIDC engineered and managed the drilling of a deep water well and engaged ERAU's Team of eight students from the Clean Energy Club and their faculty to design and assist in installation of a purifier system to deliver 4 gpm powered entirely from the sun. The Benedictine Grange provided additional support funds.
During the summer of 2012, Douglas Murphy and an ERAU team of thirteen installed the Project Haiti purifier delivering 20 gpm in Onaville, one of Haiti's largest tent cities, which has a population of roughly 100,000 Haitians.
MIDC has continued to support the ongoing yearly ERAU humanitarian clean water efforts in Haiti with additional larger scale projects and previous year site maintenance in 2012 thru 2019 ... [ More ]
More information can also be found on our [ Project Haiti Facebook Page ]
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