Train Hondurans to Make WAPI's for Central America

May I introduce my friend Leyda?  I first met Leyda 3 years ago when she attended our very first workshop in Honduras, training her and other community leaders in water testing and water purification. Leyda has been a strong advocate in her village of LLano Largo for safe drinking water and sanitation and still uses the Water Pasteurization Indicator that she received at that first workshop.  Each year when we go there we have visited with her and talked about how she encourages her neighbors to purify their drinking water and how the community is healthier because of it.
Based on the response of Leyda and people like her the local non profit we work with, Project Global Village, asked Agua Pura to set up a manufacturing facility in Honduras to make WAPI’s there.   PAG’s goal is to distribute a WAPI to every family in the area with children under 5 years of age, about 1500 families!
 In June one of our team members brought down all the supplies needed to make 2000 WAPI’s and we set up a production line in Belén Gualcho, a beautiful mountain town where we were staying. We trained the Global Village staff to make the WAPI’s and we made a couple of hundred WAPI’s while we were there.  Since then they have made several hundred more, and when they run out of materials we will provide more for them, as much as they need.  We’re planning to return often to continue to help with training and support.
Your donations and support helped make this program a success.  We think this will be the start of a new effort to spread WAPI’s and WAPI making ability throughout Honduras and eventually to all of Central America and help protect the health of families and children everywhere.
Thank you so much!
Even though this fund raising project is finished, Agua Pura’s work continues.  You can read about our work on our website and continue to support us through our program here on Global Giving.
Sincerely,
Tom Carter
Executive Director

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