[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 8]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 12095-12096]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




               RECOGNIZING KEVIN LITTLE AND KURTIS MOORE

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                          HON. VICKY HARTZLER

                              of missouri

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, July 15, 2014

  Mrs. HARTZLER. Mr. Speaker, I would like to recognize and thank two 
outstanding men from my district for their service and sacrifice to 
share their time and talents to help others. Kevin Little and Kurtis 
Moore from Osage Valley Electric, volunteered for the National Rural 
Electric Cooperative Association's International Foundation in Haiti as 
part of the Caracol Community Electrification Project. They spent two 
weeks in northern Haiti building and upgrading more than a mile and a 
half of power lines to help communities there receive affordable, safe 
and reliable electricity.
  Mr. Little and Mr. Moore even helped connect homes to electricity for 
the first time

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around Tru-du-Nord. To date, more than 4,800 consumers in the northern 
part of Haiti have access to electricity. Some homes now have TV 
antennas, a few towns have water treatment plants, doctors can provide 
better care to patients, and residents have opened their own small 
businesses like Internet cafes.
  Electricity is a critical element in improving the quality of life. 
In Haiti less than 20 percent of the people there have regular access 
to electricity. I am blessed to represent Kevin Little and Kurtis Moore 
in Congress, grateful for their hard work and commitment to the 
community, and I wish them the best in all their future endeavors.

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