Weight

Part of our service when delivering the water is helping lift and carry it. Most of the containers that people use are 5 gal buckets, others are very large wide, but fairly shallow 'wash pans'...Some people even bring beat up 55 gal drums...or other sizes somewhere in between. The thing about water is, it's heavy. And, these people (often times children) have to carry as much as they can back to there homes.
I was astonished at the physical effort it takes to carry a 5 gal bucket of water through the narrow paths of very irregular terrain (filled with all manners of dangerous obstacles)...yet, here were 10 year old girls carrying one on their head as well as carrying one at their side. The people of Haiti are strong and experiencing carrying the weight of the water with them....I believe no weight is too much for them to be able to rise above the poverty. - R