Rev. Elena Delgado, minister member-at-large of the Presbytery of Western New York and founder of Water=Life, returns to the southern highlands of Petionville Province, Haiti January 23-30 with members of Churches in Action and Functional Literacy Ministry of Haiti. Working cooperatively with 3 community leaders in the area, Elena will be providing training support and leadership development to them and their communities through the distribution of the Sawyer SP180 filter fulfilling the mission of W=L “to nurture the human spirit through the gift of clean water.

For more information about W=L, ways to support this ministry and to follow Elena’s travel blog, please go to waterequalslife.org.  You can also “like” the agency on Facebook at Water=Life.  Please hold the travel group in your prayers, more importantly, pray for the children and families of Haiti who continue to suffer great poverty and hardship while remaining joyfully faithful to God’s care and presence in their lives.

Thank you, North Church, for your support of Water=Life.

Nursery school girl hopes for a bright, healthy future.

A proud recipient of a Sawyer filter system.

The southern highlands of Haiti.

Young Soren dreams of being a doctor. He’s come to review how to maintain his family’s filter system.

With a little help from her friends, a student learns best practices of long-term maintenance.

Elena compares contaminated water (right hand) to filtered water (left hand). A life-saving difference.

Potential recipient filters contaminated water.

Elena and her Haiti team prepare for distribution of filters and buckets.

Thank you for clean water!