Haiti, Cité-Soleil shantytown. Mural promoting basic hygiene.

In this shantytown which is home to between 200,000 and 300,000 people, the ICRC renovated the water distribution system and the public latrines. It also supported local partners who saw to it that the water pipelines were scoured regularly and illegal dumping was cleaned up.

A programme to repair public fountains in the shantytown resulted in a sharp increase in the number of water sources available near dwellings. This had the added benefit of making women and children more secure whenever they carried water home from the fountains, as the distance was shorter.