With the Haitian government’s approval, Operation Blessing has started a hatchery for Gambusia – tiny fish that eat mosquito larvae – which are used all around the world as a green, natural, and sustainable method of mosquito control. Haiti remains the only western country where malaria remains epidemic, so these fish are key in helping to eradicate the root cause of mosquito-transmitted diseases such as malaria and dengue fever. At the hatchery, the fish multiply rapidly into millions and OBI staff will work with the Haiti Department of Agriculture to release the fish into Haiti’s mosquito-infested waters. Gambusia fish thrive in the worst conditions imaginable and eat many times their body weight in mosquito larvae and eggs. Following Hurricane Katrina, OBI successfully used Gambusia in New Orleans to treat thousands of stagnant swimming pools that were harboring mosquito larvae. OBI teamed up with the New Orleans Mosquito Control to start a program using the local prison to raise the fish and then OBI volunteers released them into pools. The city ultimately credited OBI with helping to avert a deadly outbreak of West Nile virus. Read: Small fish, big appetite  Read: Good fish, bad fish: OBI sets the record straight