Safe Water for Indigenous Schools & Villages

Thank you so much for donating to Operation Safe Drinking Water! Your generous donations have helped provide contaminate free water to indigenous schools and villages in Panama. Safe drinking water has a huge ripple effect on the populations drinking it, schools especially see this effect. Their kitchens are able to stay...

"Happiness is making a difference in kids' lives we can see with our own eyes." the college students from Iowa said after watching indigenous school children drink from a rain catchment tank they put in the day before. It rained later that night. The college kids went back the next day to see the...

IT’S ALL ABOUT CHILDREN. Saving them is our goal out in the indigenous islands of theBocas del Toro archipelago of Panama.. It's why we volunteer our time and work.  (We're an all volunteer charity. No one receives a salaryor compensation.)   Infants and the very young are the #1 victims of bad...

Maribel, principal of the indigenous school at Cauchero, Bocas del Toro Province of Panama, rounded up 36 small jugs and  plastic containers from a nearby village.. When the rains came she stopped what she was doing and rushed toput the plastic jugs out to catch rain.  But that was just the start. She...

Chief on a  remote indigenous island says, " Our children are in school studying, not at home sick."You made an old man happy!  Thank you." Principal Velkis Quiroz of Cristobal Island says: "up to 70% of our kids were out sick from time to time.  Now, it's less than 10%" Principal Candice of Solate...

Celebrating our ONE HUNDRETH rain catchment system for indigenous schools without safe water. schools report their abenteeism rates from sickness drop from as high as 70% to less than 10% School principals in the Bocas del Toro region of Panama often report that up to 70% of their students are chronically sick from bad...

35,000. That’s how many indigenous children and villagers now have safe, disease-free water from ONE HUNDRED rain-catchment systems we’ve installed in remote indigenous areas where many have died from bad water. Thousands are in villages in the remote islands of the Bocas del Toro archipelago  -- a major...

April 30th, 2012  Where the gift of life is given again – every time it rains. Our 100th rain catchment tank will be installed next week.We approach this milestone with thanks to all our donors.  Each tank supplies safe, disease-free water for up to 350 indigenous students and villagers. 35,000 indigenous...

Maribel, the principal of the indigenous school at Cauchero, Bocas del Toro Province of Panama was not a happy lady when we met her. Half of her students were absent with stomach problems, diarrhea, dysentery, skin disease and anemia from bad water. "Some of my brightest kids have dropped out of school from chronic...

  Iindigenous school principals report back: "Our absentee rate due to sickness fell from 70% to 15% afteryou installed the rain catchment tank. Thank you. " Velkis Quiroz - principal, Bahia Grande, Cristobal island.  "Half our students were out sick at any one time.Our absenteeism rate is now downto less...

Peace Corps Volunteer leaving after two years of living among indigenous people says… “CHILDREN REALLY ARE DYING FOR LACK OF SAFE DRINKING WATER.” Michelle Aguilar (below ) departing Peace Corps Volunteer “I’VE BEEN TO TOO MANY INFANT FUNERALS” Below– A RACE AGAINST TIME We rush...

  Sept. 13 --- two 600-gallon rain catchment tanks were installed today at the indigenous school atRio Oeste Arriba  ( Upper West River) . The students had to carry buckets of water from a stream a mile away.  People and animals upstream polluted the water. Absentee rates from sickness among the 250 students...