Training for self-construction and self-management

According to this new pandemic context, we have focused on following up our objetives around clean water accesibility for dairy consumption and basic healthcare through internet and phone calls with community representatives in order to achieve important alliances for strenghtening the next activities. We have been making contact to other NGO’s working on rainwater harvesting and pedagogical specialists that will support us all along the project for ensuring the deepest social impact.

Now more than never, water is such an essencial resource for basic healthcare and sanity so we will keep working to improve water accesibility to vulnerated communities. We are developing our community engagement methodology considering full participation of local autorities and public universities. We will keep constantly adapting to natural disasters, always responding with respect and aperture to the real new social needs.

Our strategy in front of the COVID-19 pandemic is based on enhancing social fabric and equitable and sustainable access to basic resources as clean water and energy through environmental education.

We will have more news soon. Greetings and take care.

Alejandro.

Dear Global Givers:

After two years of contact with plenty families which have participated in the workshops and cultural activities with San Pablo’s community, we have identified that even if some basic needs were covered after the earthquake of 2017, San Pablo’s population is still vulnerated on their clean water accessibility for dairy consumption and basic healthcare; in case of being affected by another natural disaster or climate change effect their inefficient water supply would be completely interrupted as happened last earthquake. The lack of drinking water in San Pablo Hidalgo economically and socially affects residents, resulting in migration, violence, few opportunities, viral diseases such as Zika, Dengue, Chikungunya; obesity problems and diabetes due to the high consumption of soda and poor sanitation conditions. Therefore, we will seek to impact twenty families that live between Otoño and J. M. Iglesias streets where they have even less water than the other residents.

Based on the 6th Goal of the UNDP and the inclusion of Article 4 of Mexican Constitution about the human right to access, disposal and sanitation of water for personal and domestic consumption; in the next months we will work with the community in order to harvest rainwater as an alternative to the municipal supply.

These last two months we have worked on the investigation of the determinants and conditions of the project so we will be able to: design and calculate the rainwater harvesting system, develop an ethnographic research design around water accesibility and consumption and establish the community linking methodology around the attention and documentation of the water problematic.The next months we will work on continuous training, workshops, assemblies, collective research activities, interviews and testimonies that will result in the construction of a demonstration rainwater harvesting system which will be located by the community according to the largest possible number of beneficiaries.

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