Location Radionovka, Ukraine Community Description Radionovka is a small village of 1,500 people, located near the most polluted city in all of Europe, Kryvy Rog, Ukraine. The community does not have running water. However it has local river water piped into water stations throughout the village for local use. The water in the water stations […]
This project has been completed under the direction of Peace Corps Volunteer Nicholas Shen. To read about the beginning of the project, CLICK HERE. This project was to construct 7 handwashing stations at the most critical places in the community of Baolala. Nicholas reports: The Baolala Hygiene Project was started in October, 2010, in collaboration with […]
Location Baolala, Kenya Community Description The community of Baolala, located 2.5 hours west of Malindi, is primarily composed of a Kenyan tribe called the Giriama people. The Giriama are beautiful and friendly welcoming people who live with common occupations as farmers and cattle livestock raisers. They have their own language apart from Swahili, but typically […]
Location Bulalacao, Oriental Mindoro, Philippines Community Description Bulalacao (translation: Shooting Star), Oriental Mindoro, Philippines is a historical and beautiful municipality. It is thought to be the oldest population center in Mindoro dating back to the 10th century. Bulalacao is one of the poorest municipalities in Oriental Mindoro and indeed all of the Philippines. Bulalacao is […]
This project has been completed under the direction of Peace Corps Volunteers Rebecca E. Kington and Ben Stacey. To read about the beginning of the project, CLICK HERE. The project was to construct 4 pumps in strategic locations in the municipality. After planning the project with the community, Rebecca received a site transfer to another community. […]
Location Kirovograd, Kirovograd, Ukraine Community Description Kirovograd, located on the Inhul River, is an oblast capital city, located in the center of Ukraine. The Internat is a school for 358 students. Some of them attend school, some live there during the week and return to their villages for the weekends and the holidays, and about […]
Location Kirovograd, Ukraine Community Description Kirovograd, on the Inhul River, is an oblast capital city, located in the center of Ukraine. The Kirovograd Regional Universal Research Library Named After Chizhevsky is the largest library in the oblast and hosts a Window on America Center, Bibliomist computer lab, and center for people with visual disabilities. It […]
This project has been completed under the direction of Peace Corps Volunteer Sajay Menon. To read about the beginning of the project, CLICK HERE. The project was to repair pumps in and around the village. Sajay reports: The Mwamba Muchilingwa Pump Project was meant to fix three boreholes, to provide safe drinking water for a catchment […]
Location Division 5, Choibalsan, Dornod, Mongolia Community Description Choibalsan is the aimag center (provincial capital) of Dornod, the easternmost province of Mongolia. Choibalsan is 664 kilometers east of the Mongolian national capital, Ulaanbaatar. Division 5 is situated in an abandoned Soviet military base nine kilometers outside of Choibalsan. It was a Russian military base until […]
This project has been completed under the direction of Peace Corps Volunteer Bob Figlock. To read about the beginning of the project, CLICK HERE. The project was to refurbish the existing deep well to provide water for the families of Division 5 and for the kindergarten. Bob reports: It’s been just under a year since the […]