World Water Day, March 22

The statistics related to the worldwide lack of clean water is both staggering and sobering.

• 100 million families are stuck in a cycle of poverty and disease because they don’t have access to safe water.
• More people die from unsafe water than from all forms of violence, including war.
• Water-borne diseases kill more children under the age of five than malaria, measles, and HIV/AIDS – combined.
• In developing countries, as much as 80% of illnesses are linked to poor water and sanitation conditions.
• Women and girls spend up to 6 hours every day walking to get water for their families.
• 443 million school days are lost each year due to water-related diseases.
• Time spent gathering water around the world translates to $24 billion in lost economic benefits each year, furthering the cycle of poverty.

What can YOU do? 

Even though you are “one” person, you can indeed make a difference.  RMI has immediate access to 100 filters that are available for sponsorship at $75 per filter. This specific filter is a ready to use filter that can provide up to 540 gallons of clean water a day!  We have “boots on the ground”, ready to install these filters. 

YOU can make a difference in one family’s lives with just one filter.  That’s less time spent walking to and from a water source to retrieve water.  That’s less illness, both minor and major, in the family and increased good health for everyone.  It means less school missed for the kids and more productivity for the adults.

Join us in showing the love of Christ in this practical and hands-on way.  RMI has set up a special water filter fundraising effort to get these 100 filters into the homes of needy families.  You will find it HERE.

Our Haitian Staff Needs YOUR Help!

Would you please consider a monthly gift to directly help our Haitian Staff?

Our desire is to give our staff a raise, as well as add a few more team members.  We can't do this without help. Can you help!

We need to raise an additional $4500/monthly.  We're just getting started, but so far, we've raised just over 8%.  We have a ways to go.

Maybe you've been here and have appreciated our Haitian staff?  They are the backbone of our ministry.

Can you help?  Click below to donate monthly, or with a special gift.  Choose "Haitian Staff".

Benjamin Altema: A Promotion to be Celebrated!

Benjamin Altema
Director of Field Operations

We are proud to share with RMI's followers and supporters that Benjamin Altema has been promoted from Field Administrator in Haiti, to the position of Director of Field Operations. Benjamin will directly report to Rob Thompson, Field Director, and the rest of the team (missionaries and Haitian staff) will now report directly to Benjamin.

Benjamin came to work with RMI as an administrative assistant in 2006 and his gifts of leadership and administration were evident in a very short time. Anyone who knows Benjamin and has worked with him over the years, knows that he is a Godly man of integrity and leadership. He has been a blessing to our American missionaries, Haitian staff, and our team members who have had opportunity to work with him over the last twelve years.

Benjamin has been married to his beautiful wife, Lucette, for seven years and they have four handsome sons; Jason and Jaden are six years old, Alan is five years old, and Ezechias is two years old.

Benjamin is thankful to be working in the environment of a great team here at RMI. He says, "My team makes me look good." He has stated that his position with RMI gives him "opportunity to influence the people I'm working with, and to transform more lives and build God's Kingdom through them."

We would ask you to keep Benjamin and his family in prayer as he transitions to this new position of leadership on the RMI team.