La Source (2012)

• 69%
• 2012
• Dokumentarfilm

In Der Quelle (ausgeprägt lah-soos), Haiti water does not come easily. Each day, villagers of this small, rural community must choose between enduring a long, treacherous walk to retrieve clean water or drink contaminated water from a nearby river. For over 30 years, the villagers have attempted to address this problem by constructing a means of channeling the water from a natural spring in the mountains, but with limited funding and an unsupportive government their attempts to provide clean water were to no avail. Since he was a teenager, Josue Jugend, along with his brother Chrismedonne have dreamt of remedying this problem for their people. In 1989, Josue moved from Source to New Jersey where he found employment as a custodian at Princeton University. His work and custodial zweiten job-as-a-taxi driver, which total close to 20 hours a day allows him to send money home to Source so that he and Chrismedonne...