Lamothe Lormier Speaks at Numerous Places on Behalf of the Haiti Clean Water Project

There are few speakers more captivating than Lamothe Lormier from Gift of Water.  He recently joined our club for a special meeting at Soy to tell us about his work with Gift of Water and how Liberty Rotary Club will change the lives of 1,000 families (about 7,000 Haitians).  On his whirlwind tour of our area, one of his stops was at RJK Middle School, where he was interviewed by a number of students.  This interview was broadcast to the entire student body.

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Lamothe Paul Lormier was born in 1961 in Liancourt, a tiny village in Haiti.  After graduating High School in 1984 he enrolled in the State University of Haiti to study social service and psychology.  Lamothe has served as the Director for a nationwide literacy program, has taught math in a public school and French in a college, and became an Assistant Professor in Methodology at the State University of Haiti in 1993.  He is a co-founder of Fonkoze, which is now Haiti’s largest microfinance institution with more than 60,000 borrowers.

 

Lamothe became the Country Liaison for Gift of Water, Inc. (a not-for-profit organization in Carmel, Indiana) in 2002, in which position he travelled around Haiti distributing the water filtration systems that it manufactured, training families in hygiene and sanitation, and continually meeting with the families to test the water produced and the systems themselves, and to provide the families with all of the supplies they required in order to have clean, potable water.  In 2015 Lamothe joined the Board of Directors of Gift of Water. 

 

Lamothe will graduate law school in 2017 and will pursue his dream of being an environmental lawyer who can help the Haitian people.  He is fluent in Creole, French, Spanish and English and is a Consultant for various environmental and other organizations in Haiti and in the United States, including Sakala, Partners in Progress, Hearts out to Haiti, and Parish Twinning Program of the Americas.  He is also the President of The Global Family, Inc. which seeks to establish an eye clinic in the Haitian countryside.