In the department of Grand Anse everything remains to be done in terms of sanitation and waste collection. According to Claude Fignolé, President of the Association of Mayors of Grand Anse, "all the communes are facing the same problems of access to drinking water, lack of sanitation and waste collection. The municipalities have well two or three people responsible of cleansing department but not operational due to lack of means."

Several communities from the West of France joined forces to help in the reconstruction of the State of Haiti. The agglomeration of Saint-Brieuc, decided to help out the association of mayors of Grand Anse on water and especially sanitation. Michel Lesage, President of Saint-Brieuc Agglomeration, signed this week in Saint-Brieuc [France] a cooperation agreement with Claude Fignolé, the President of the association of mayors of Grand Anse.

The city of Saint-Brieuc gives €30,000 to be used to pay 200 people for waste collection. One way to create jobs and raise awareness among the population. The funds will also be used to purchase equipment, picks, brooms, buckets... Nantes Métropole will finance the recruitment by the association of mayors of Grand Anse (Amaga) of an engineer who will create a drainage system first to Bonbon and then extend it to other municipalities.

This assistance will focus on the town of Bonbon, a community of 1,000 persons located at the bottom of a hill "At each rain, water runs down the hill causing leading trash and vegetable waste in its path. The drainage was not enough. And at each heavy rain there is an increase in cholera cases" explained Claude Fignolé.

HL/ HaitiLibre