Dear Friends,

We need your support to fund books and water projects to help children at risk in the developing world. Please have a look at some of the projects that past contributions to WaterBridge Outreach: Books + Water (WBO) have enabled us to fund.

All charitable gifts (tax-deductible in the USA) made in response to this appeal will be fully used to support a unique literacy program in Haitian Creole and towards the installment of a rain catchment system to provide clean water for development of a sustainable community vegetable garden at Matènwa Community Learning Center (MCLC) situated in the remote mountains of Lagonav, a Haitian island in the bay of Port au Prince.

Matènwa, which is fast becoming a model school for the entire island in the fight against illiteracy, is based on the educational philosophy that literacy gives individuals -- and importantly in Haiti, women and girls -- a chance for self-determination, freedom, and empowerment to change their lives for the better.

Please read WBO's featured interview by Dr. Barbara Bundy with a remarkable American teacher, Christine Low, who along with Haitian community organizer Abner Sauveur, co-founded Matènwa 19 years ago with the shared vision that their school be a place where children are not subject to punishment by hitting but are respected as agents of their own learning and where today the students write their own storybooks in Creole for use in the Mother Tongue reading and writing program

For those of you who have made contributions in the past -- THANK YOU! We hope that both continuing and new friends will respond with a gift in any amount - no amount is too small - to help WaterBridge Outreach fund the urgently needed books + water projects highlighted above for the Matènwa school in Haiti. 

The WaterBridge Outreach Team
Barbara Bundy, Peter Coughlan, Karen Fergus, Ken Kopp, Corinne Robson, and Gail Tsukiyama