Let’s bring water (and hope) to the good people of Boucan Ferdinand Haiti.
Clean water is the turning point—for food, health, and long-term independence for at-risk Haitian children.
✓Community already cleared land & built roads by hand
✓100% directed to cisterns, piping & rainwater harvesting
Look What the Village Has Already Built by Hand.
When our well drill hit dry rock at 270 feet—and engineers confirmed the water table was 1,500 feet deep—Boucan Ferdinand didn't give up. Using the first $38,580 raised, the villagers excavated the mountain basin by hand, hauled boulders on their heads, and built this reinforced stone-and-concrete rainwater reservoir. Your gift funds the remaining cement, roofing, piping, and cistern capacity to reach all 50 families.
Excavating the Hillside Basin by Hand
After well drilling hit dry rock at 270 ft (with water 1,500 ft down), the entire village of Boucan Ferdinand mobilized with pickaxes and shovels to excavate the rainwater reservoir pit.
Hand-Laid Stone & Steel Rebar Columns
Villagers formed a human chain carrying heavy mountain boulders on their heads while masons anchored reinforced steel rebar columns and thick stone-and-mortar foundation walls.
12-Foot Stone Reservoir Walls Rising
Rising out of the excavated mountain trench, the stone masonry walls provide permanent structural strength engineered to hold massive volumes of harvested rainwater.
Interior Scaffolding & Waterproof Plastering
Inside the deep stone basin, local masons erected timber scaffolding to trowel smooth, multi-layer waterproof cement plaster across every square foot of the interior walls.
Sealed Cistern Basin & Top Ring Beam
With the interior basin sealed and the upper reinforced concrete ring beam poured, the cistern is structurally ready to store clean water through the 90-day dry season.
Roof Catchment & PVC Gutter Harvesting
Sloped catchment roofing and heavy-duty PVC rain gutters channel every downpour directly into sealed stone storage—turning tropical rain into year-round life for 250 villagers.
Rain Harvesting - an absolute game changer for this village.
Boucan Ferdinand is a remote mountain village on the Haitian–Dominican border. For generations, families here have lived without reliable access to clean water—walking long distances, spending scarce money, and sacrificing time that could otherwise go toward farming, work, and education.
This project is about changing that permanently.
Rather than short-term aid, we are investing in infrastructure that enables self-reliance:
- Rainwater harvesting and cisterns to capture and store water through the dry season
- Support for food production through fruit trees and small-scale farming
- Road access that allows equipment, trade, and opportunity to reach the village
The people of Boucan Ferdinand are not waiting to be rescued. They have already cleared land, built roads by hand, and worked for days with little food to prepare for this water system. Your support helps finish what they have started.
Water changes everything.
It reduces disease.
It frees up time and resources.
It turns survival into the possibility of growth.
Goal Raise: $150,000 | Total Raised: $38,580
25.7% Funded (as of 1.9.26)
Est. Water Needs for Boucan Ferdinand
Daily basic use: 5.5 gallons/person
Plants + livestock: ~50 gallons/family
Total per family/day: ~80 gallons
Population: 250 people (~50 families)
Community total/day: ~3,960 gallons
Dry season: ~90 days
Total water storage need: ~356,600 gallons
