Clean Water and Conservation in the Philippines

Provide water pump Philipines

Summary

On the island of Negros, in the Philippines, an innovative pump will bring clean running water to thousands of people in 12 villages and encourage watershed conservation within these communities progress reportread updates from the field

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Received $5,747 from 118 donations from people like:

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Currently, women and children are having to walk down steep and dangerous hillsides in order to collect water. This task has significantly reduced the villager's standard of living. Yet there is a solution to the problem. AIDFI, a local NGO, in partnership with Green Empowerment, is able to deliver water to these communities using a ram pump, which will allow for the community members to spend their time doing other productive activities. This will take the burden off both women and children.

Activities

Donations will go towards the first project that needs funding on the list. Once this project has been funded, the next project on the list will be implemented. With each pump, villagers receive tree seedlings to plant, to preserve the watershed.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $5,747
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $3,752
Total Funding Goal: $9,500

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

The installation of ram pumps for these twelve separate sites will benefit these communities in creating a more accessible water system and a healthier environment based on their agreement to protect their watershed in return for the technology.

Project Message

"I used to have to bring food down to the river for a days laundry; and bring the children too otherwise there would be no-one at home. Now they stay at home and so do I."
- Araceli Carbajosa, Resident of Bagacay, a previous ram pump site

Who is Running This Project

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Michel Maupoux
Program Manager
140 SW Yamhill St.
Portland, OR 97204
United States
503-284-5774
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Project Sponsor

GlobalGiving

Organization

Green Empowerment Logo

Green Empowerment
140 SW Yahmill Street
Portland, Oregon 97204
United States
503-284-5774
http://www.greenempowerment.org

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in PhilippinesPhilippines and can also be found under Climate Change (GG Green)Climate Change (GG Green).

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

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on February 8, 2010.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on December 7, 2007

Latest Update from the Field

Next village: Tres Hermanos

By Michel Maupoux - Program Manager, February 07, 2010 12:57 AM

With the help of our generous donors and of a group of students from NorthWestern University, we are now planning the next system for the community of Tres Hermanos, in Murcia municipality.
Tres Hermanos is formed of 45 households, i.e. 215 people including 84 children. They currently spend 30 minutes one-way down and up steep terrain to fetch limited water.
This is a relatively complex system, with more than 1 mile of piping and two pumps. We plan to install the system in July 2010.

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