CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE — The Social Justice Group at Our Lady of the Angels Church held a three-hour cruise on Aug. 3 to help pay for a water treatment unit in Haiti.
At $30 a ticket, the Sunset Cruise from Sea Isle City — aboard the ship Starfish — was designed to raise funds to provide a water treatment facility to a crisis-stricken community in Haiti, according to Ann Herron, chairwoman of the event, noting that one treatment unit can support up to 3,000 people.
“Clean, potable water is often the difference between life and death for many residents,” she said.
In 2006 the Social Justice Group helped a family in Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, by building a house but the project eventually became a county-wide effort to create a village. Herron noted that Our Lady of the Angels was joined by local schools and organizations and by other groups and individuals to help raise funds to build a village on Haiti’s northern Atlantic Coast, called Bord DeMer, with 16 cinderblock homes for 16 families.
“The community was presented with 26 goats, 12 cows, and a bull,” Herron said. “These animals supply a consistent source of milk, dairy products, and meat, providing pivotal nourishment for residents.”
Additionally, an agricultural project was able to pay for 10 acres of land that produces such crops as beans, corn, and cassava. The international organization, Food for the Poor, oversees all projects of the Social Justice Group.
For more information contact Ann Herron at 609-780-2326 or e-mail mcvhaiti@gmail.com.
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