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Haiti Water Truck
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The water truck operates six days a week
making four deliveries too many neighborhoods in Cite Soleil and
reaching numerous impoverished families where the local people carry
the water home in 5 gallon buckets.
With your help, we can affect thousands of lives!
Yearly delivery of
over 4 million gallons of clean water to the poor in the slum of
Cité Soleil. Delivering four 3,500
gallon loads of water, 6 days a week, 52 weeks per year to thousands of
people. That is the equivalent of 800,000
five gallon buckets of water each year. Your funds support local Haiti
driver salaries, fuel and maintenance.
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Pictures and Videos
Haiti
Water Truck Picture
Gallery - Minnesotan Kevin McClellan helps Haiti by Photographer
Richard Tsong-Taatarii, Star Tribune
Video:
Saving Haiti: Delivering water and hope
by by Photographer Richard Tsong-Taatarii, Star
Tribun - Kevin McClellan delivers 6,000 to 10,000
gallons of water a day to Cite Soleil, one of the worst slums in the
world
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Sculptural tribute to Kevin McClellan
who bring fresh
water to Haitians
by Angie Heida
 Hello.
I am artist/art teacher in Andover, MN. I was inspired to make a
sculptural tribute about Kevin McClellan and the water truck delivery
ministry in Haiti after reading about it in the StarTribune.
In the middle there is a profile of Kevin, a MN license plate, a map of
Haiti, and a small toy water truck impression.
The whole piece is made from clay, except for the handles which I took
off real 5 gallon buckets.
The top and bottom are ceramic pieces
made to look like 5 gallon
water buckets with small impressions of people carrying water in
buckets on them (to represent the vast amount of water being delivered
daily).
I made some small stamps of people carrying water on their heads
in 5 gallon buckets and impressed them in a pattern all over these top
and bottom clay water bucket forms and that is what the two detail
pictures are showing. I also took the real handles off of two of
my 5
gallon buckets at home and bent them to fit the sculpture.
Middle Section of sculpture(dark bluish color): I made 3 profiles of
Kevin wearing his hat and looking upwards (from looking at several of
the pictures of him in the StarTribune article).
I alternated those profiles with clay MN license plates, made by
actually pressing clay onto real license plates, (there are also 3 of
these) to go around the sculpture. After that there were open
spaces in between his face and the start of the next license plate so I
filled in with Matchbox toy water truck impressions and a simple map of
Haiti that I drew onto the clay.
Yearly
delivery of over 4 million gallons of clean water to the poor in the
slum of Cité Soleil. Delivering four 3,500 gallon loads of
water, 6
days a week, 52 weeks per year to thousands of people. That is the
equivalent of 800,000 five gallon buckets of water each year. Funds
support local Haiti driver salaries, fuel and maintenance.
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