Creating a Sustainable Water Initiative in Jazmin

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Summary

We will build a water treatment system with the community of Jazmín and work with its members to create and implement a water education campaign to ensure project sustainability and replicability. progress reportread updates from the field

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Project tackles a dual engineering and educational challenge, leaving a sustainable, community-driven initiative, while developing a model for long-term global engagement so that similar projects can be replicated with partner communities elsewhere.

Activities

We will be co-designing and building a new water system with the community, while co-developing and implementing a water education initiative which includes teaching materials and technical training.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $13,811
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $21,189
Total Funding Goal: $35,000

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

The project aims to benefit the community of Jazmín immediately, though the success of the operation will create a replicable model for development that shows the power of community collaboration and sustainability.

Project Message

I believe people, given the awareness of the injustice of the world and the opportunity to engage it, would do so. It's not only about changing the world but changing oneself in the process.
- Diane Uree Kim, Co-founder

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Alfinio Flores,
Co-Founder
1775 Massachusetts Ave.
Apt. B
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02140-1520
United States
480.518.7532
Email:

Project Sponsor

Center for Global Engagement, Northwestern Univ

Organization

FIMRC
296 Quincy Mail Center
58 Plympton St.
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
United States
310.210.2232
http://www.fimrc.org

Learn more about FIMRC and the project team.



Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Costa Rica and can also be found under Health.

For more information about Costa Rica, read the Human Development Report on Costa Rica or the Wikipedia entry for Costa Rica.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on January 18, 2008.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on February 27, 2007.

Latest Update from the Field

Jazmín needs your help again!

By Alfinio Flores - Co-founder, January 18, 2008 04:12 PM

The Jazmín Safe Water Initiative is alive and well! To date, our group has raised over $9,000 through your support on Global Giving, and received a grant from Harvard for another $8,000, raising our total to $17,000. This funding has helped us to jumpstart our project and to successfully complete the community diagnostic necessary for water engineering. However, we hope to raise more to move forward with our project!

We are currently participating in America's Giving online competition in which the top 4 international projects, with the greatest number of individual donors, will win $50,000 each! For us, that means that our project would be fully funded!

We currently have 84 donors, and the closest competitor in the top 4 has 150. Please consider giving $10 before the competition end date (Jan. 31st)! Your $10 donation is a vote in our favor, and brings us one donation closer to winning us $50,000! Since the goal is to have as many different donors as possible, I humbly ask you to encourage three of your friends, family members, and peers to help us in our endeavor to provide safe water for the people of Jazmín , Costa Rica!!

If all of you who gave (and helped us win our last competition) give again and encourage several people to give, we could win this competition!

Thanks for your support, and best wishes!

Sincerely,

The Jazmín Safe Water Initiative


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