Fight childhood disease with safe drinking water

Here's a brief story about someone your donations help support.  As we've mentioned before we have trained many college students from throughout Latin America in our methods of water testing and water purification.  When these highly motivated students return home they apply what they have learned in their communities, tackling local problems for themselves.  We are proud of them and support them however we can.

Vicki was a student of ours who came from a very traditional area in southern Mexico and wanted to help her community. She is very interested in Biology and ecology and has organized clean up and recycling campaigns to protect the local environment.  Recently she took on another big project, cleaning up waste water that was polluting the local streams.

Waste wash water from her schools latrine and other sources was running onto the ground making a muddy mess and contaminating fields and water supplies.  Vicki studied the problem and decided to build an organic bioswale filter to cleanse the water before returning it to the stream.  Her plan was a system of connected settling ponds with aquatic plants and gravel to remove contaminates.  Agua Pura helped her with the design and provided funds for her project.

Using local help and enlisting the aid of the students she built a very effective system that has cleaned up the mess and now filters the waste water before channeling it into local fields and streams for irrigation.  Vicki and her local community are rightly proud of the work they have done.

Agua Pura Para El Pueblo often receives reports like these from students and supporters and people we have trained all over Latin America.  It is very satisfying to see that our work is being carried on and that families lives are improving because of it. We work one student at a time, one family at a time, one community at a time and  your support and donations are what has made these projects successful.  Thank you so much.

For your interest, Vicki posted her own summary of her project, in Spanish, on our website which you can see on the attached link.