In partnership with the Haitian Ministry of Public Health and the Population (MSPP), the University of Notre Dame Haiti Program dedicated a new fortified salt production plant Monday (Dec. 8) in Delmas, Haiti. Several administrators were in attendance, including Sophia Martelly, first lady of Haiti.

The new facility, which will supplement an existing facility at Cite Militaire, will be used to expand the production of clean, iodized salt for the Haitian population by providing the nation’s first brine-wash facility. This equipment, which should be fully operational in early 2015, will allow local Haitian salt to be cleaned to food-grade quality prior to being fortified and packaged for consumption by the Haitian people.