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A local team is on the ground in Haiti working to bring clean drinking water to survivors of that earthquake.
A mission group with Edge Outreach is installing water purification systems in Port au Prince.
“The first couple days I was here, I had this hopeless feeling about what I was seeing and what might be the future for these people,” said Jerry McBroom who talked with WHAS11 from Haiti.
When he arrived in Haiti days after the earthquake struck, he was first struck by the sheer number of people.
“There's a tent city right behind the Salvation Army clinic with probably 12,000 people. it’s just huge. The whole lawn of the hospital is covered with people on mats in beds," McBroom said.
Hospitals bursting at the seams with 8-10 people in each room and more outside.
His team, Edge Outreach, is installing water purification systems at clinics bringing clean water to the survivors because clean water here can mean the difference between life and death.
“It is life saving. Literally life saving. These people they just cannot find clean water. They are getting it any way they can. The people are just desperate."
The group has installed three systems already that clean 55 gallons of water a minute running only on a car battery and table salt.
Meanwhile, the people here, he says, are running on faith.
And now, after more than a week in the middle of destruction, what is still leaving him awestruck is the people.
He said, “The resiliency I see in these people is just unbelievable. I think their lives have been so hard for so long. They just know how to pick up and start moving on so I don't know what the future holds, but the people are amazing."
To find out ways you can help the local efforts to raise money and aid for victims of the earthquake in Haiti visit http://www.edgeoutreach.com/.
