Project Report
| May 31, 2019
Clean water in Rural Honduras: May 2019
By Colin Swearingen | Rural Hondurans: Thrilled about Their Clean Water
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Training Villagers in Flor Azul
Hello Friends!
We are currently in Honduras, working hard to train rural communities on how to use water filters. We will have more statistics and information in our next report, but here are some highlights from Valle Arriba and some other nearby villages.
In Valle Arriba, we asked people if the filters made them feel healthier. 98 percent of people using the filters responded by saying yes. In Suyatillo, this positive response was even higher: every person (17, which covered over half of homes in the community) enthusiastically said they felt healthier after using the filters for the past three months. These numbers are exciting!
After checking in with our friends in Valle Arriba and Suyatillo, we were able to bring filters to three new villages: Lomas Limpias, Flor Azul, and La Lima. Providing one-on-one training, our local interpreters were able to thoroughly train the villagers on how to use the filters (see attached photo). In all, we distributed 300 water filters, which means over 1,500 people now have access to clean water!
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Mar 4, 2019
Clean Water Update: February, 2019
By Colin Swearingen | Project Leader
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A Valle Arriba student taking a quick study break.
One of our team members is down in Honduras right now and had the chance to visit with people in Valle Arriba to help retrain people on how to best use their water filters as well as troubleshoot any problems they were experiencing.
The reports so far have been very encouraging! People are using their filters consistently; they are amazed at how much dirt is being removed from the water. Some people were experiencing some slow filtering, but our team was able to show them how to fix that. The school teachers especially love the filters. They asked for one for each classroom!
People are definitely talking about the filters: one woman asked when we would visit her grandmother's village so that they could have the same access to clean water.
One interesting problem we've observed: the syringes used to clean out the filters are breaking, so we need to bring extra with us in May.
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Kids drank from this trough prior getting filters.
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Dec 3, 2018
Water Filtration Efforts in Valle Arriba
By Brendan Sieber | Co-Student Coordinator
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We have an update from our primary water filtration fundraising chair, Darla Boyk.
Fundraising is going amazingly well and we have the funds raised for the
greenhouse with some extra in case there isn't a ventilation system or
pay local labor to finish it. Depending on the number of curtains you
need, we will get there quickly as well. I have 105 filters already
with additional funds verbally committed and am shooting for 150 filters
which I think we will easily hit and exceed.
After seven months since visiting Valle Arriba, Sociedad Amigos de Los Niños, our partners in Nuevo Paraiso, have reported that the citizens of Valle Arriba are utilizing our water filters with 70% usage, while 10% are using the buckets that we have provided. Given the wide majority of usage, we are excited to return to Valle Arriba late May to begin tracking the effects of our water filters on the overall health of Valle Arriba. Preventable ailments such as diabetes, hypertension, and parasitic infections are all increased due to the lack of access to clean water. Comparing the relative rates in the villages for these three ailments will be crucial in determining the effectiveness of the water filters as a tool to curb health care disparity in Central America.
Thank you very much for your support as we continue to improve the world, one household at a time.
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