Location Kashongi Trading Center, Kiruhura District, Uganda Community Description Kashongi Trading Center is located in the Kiruhura district of Southwest Uganda. The community suffers from a severe lack of clean drinking water. While safe water coverage for rural Uganda is on average 55%, it is only 35% in the Kashongi sub-county. Kahongi High School has […]
Location Chum Kiri district, Kampot province, Cambodia Community Description Chum Kiri is located 40 km from Kampot town, 150 km from Phnom Penh, and 12 km from the nearest highway. The majority of families survive on subsistence agriculture and few venture outside of the district due to the decrepit road conditions. Chum Kiri was founded […]
This project has been completed under the direction of Peace Corps Volunteer Liza Renee Hall. To read about the beginning of the project, CLICK HERE. The project was to build a rainwater storage tank at the Local Chairman I’s office, a public facility. Liza reports: The rainwater tank has been completed. We had to move […]
This project has been completed under the direction of Peace Corps Volunteer Bruce Kelsey. To read about the beginning of the project, CLICK HERE. The project was to build two toilets at the school. Bruce reports: Yay! The latrine is complete! Thanks again for getting us the money to build it. I have attached a […]
This project has been completed under the direction of Peace Corps Volunteers Lussia Kamberian and Ryan Weber. To read about the beginning of the project, CLICK HERE. The project was to repair the water pump for the shallow well in Kapchemogen, and to train locals in the technology. Lussia reports: I am happy to inform […]
Location Bahía Honda, Bastimentos Island, Bocas del Toro, Panama Community Description The community of Bahia Honda is composed of approximately 250 indigenous Ngobe people, living in distinct homesteads. The Ngobe moved to the previously unoccupied bay on Bastimentos Island in 1972, when population pressures forced them to leave the mainland, which was rapidly growing into a […]
This project has been completed under the direction of Peace Corps Volunteer Rebecca Workman. To read about the beginning of the project, CLICK HERE. The project was to build 16 handwashing stations in health centers. Rebecca reports: The Kayunga District Handwashing Station Project has been completed according to plan. With the help of my co-workers […]
This project has been completed under the direction of Peace Corps Volunteer Jeremy Mak. To read about the beginning of the project, CLICK HERE. The project was to rehabilitate two Mark II handpumps in the Niamina Dankunku Area. Jeremy reports: I’m writing to let you know that we successfully concluded the Niamina Dankunku Area Pump […]
Location Melitopol, Zaporizhia Oblast, Ukraine Community Description Melitopol is a city of about 160,000 people located in Southeastern Ukraine. During the era of the Soviet Union, the city had a robust economy defined by a booming engineering and automobile industry. Following the fall of the Soviet Union, the city has fallen on hard times and […]
Location Chum Kiri district, Kampot province, Cambodia Community Description Chum Kiri, founded in 1993, is the newest and poorest district in the southern province of Kampot. Khmer Rouge forces did not concede defeat in this area until as late as 1998. Due to the prolonged hostilities in the region, development has been extraordinarily slow compared […]