Grow Clean Food & Harvest Water in Rural Oaxaca

Thanks to donor contributions and many volunteer hands, we have completed the construction of a second 10,000 liter rainwater storage tank, just in time for the cistern to fill up with this season’s bountiful rain. Jorge and his family now have access to clean water on a regular basis. Volunteers, community members, and particularly women, participated in the construction process and learned the “ferrocement” construction technique along the way. Thank you for contributing to bringing back water in a dry landscape!

Also in recent news, last month we celebrated the first round for distributing solar energy cookers to rural families in Oaxaca. Over 40 women and their families gathered at the Instituto Tonantzin Tlalli (ITT), our education center in Oaxaca, to participate in a training session on how to use the solar energy cookers. Each family was given one solar energy cooker to take back to their rural communities. This solar energy project is designed to reduce the devastating deforestation rates in Oaxaca, where wood provides the most common cooking fuel, and to improve family diets by also incorporating healthy cooking habits into the training sessions. Our goal is to distribute 200 solar ovens, hosting at least one solar cooking training workshop at the ITT each month. Your contributions have helped bring solar energy and healthy cooking alternatives to a landscape where sun is plentiful, but environmental degradation and malnutrition are also in abundance. Gracias!