Location Thmar Puok District, Banteay Meanchey Province, Cambodia Community Description Thmar Puok is a small district town located In Banteay Meanchey Province in the northwest of Cambodia with a population of 9,147. It is situated 50 kilometers north of the Provincial Capital of Svay and lies only 15 kilometers to the east of the Thailand-Cambodia […]
Location Boqueron Arriba, Salamanca District, Colon Province, Panama Community Description Boqueron Arriba is a small subsistence farming community located within Chagres National Park. The majority of the 120 residents live below the poverty line. In December of 2010, heavy rains produced flooding and landslides, resulting in the displacement of families, loss of crops and livestock, […]
Location Caserio La Joya, Canton Las Marias, Municipio Nueva Esparta, Departamento La Uniòn, El Salvador Community Description La Joya is a small farming community in Canton Las Marias, in the municipality of Nueva Esparta, at the top of one of the tallest mountains in the northeast part of the country. Nearly all of the people […]
Location Sosnivka, Lvivska Oblast, Ukraine Community Description Sosnivka is a rural community of 11,000 inhabitants located in the Lvivska Oblast in western Ukraine. Sosnivka and the surrounding area have been identified as an “ecological disaster” area due to the coal mines, which are still in operation in the town. Details can be read at: http://io.ua/s1086 […]
Location Pouy Ta Sak Village, Tmor Kol District, Boung Preng Commune, Battambang, Cambodia Community Description Pouy Ta Sak Village is located in the District town of Tmor Kol, Commune of Boung Preng, and the Provincial town of Battambang. Battambang is the second largest province in Cambodia. This village is on the border of Battambang and […]
Location Novoukrainka, Kirovohrad Oblast, Ukraine Community Description Novoukrainka is a small city that serves as a Regional Center in the Kirovohrad Oblast, 350 kilometers south and slightly east of Kyiv, in the heartland of Ukraine. It is a farming community surrounded by rolling hills of corn, sunflower, and wheat fields. The main industries in the […]
Water Charity Project Huabalito and La Botella are small farming annexes of Sausal, the village where Peace Corps Volunteer Matthew Fuller lives and works, and where 22 and 25 families live respectively. Each community is entirely dependent on export and subsistent farming as an economic activity, including the production of grapes and sugar for export. […]
Location Sofievka, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine Community Description Sofievka is a town of approximately 10,000 in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. Located on the vast Ukrainian steppe, Sofievka’s local economy is based mainly on the large industrial farms surrounding it. The groundwater in the area is unsuitable for domestic use, so all running water is currently brought in […]
Location Sincape, Olmos, Lambayeque, Peru Community Description Sincape is a small rural community making up one of the dozens of annex communities that form the town of Olmos in the northern region of the department of Lambayeque in Peru. It is a small impoverished village of about 135 families, or 600. Classified as a dry […]
Location Faraba, Saraya district, Kedougou region, Senegal Community Description Faraba is a Malinke village with a population of approximately 250 people. The main economic activity in this village is agriculture, with staple crops such as peanuts, rice, and millet being grown mostly for consumption, and cotton being grown for sale. Vegetables grown in personal gardens […]