Location Dacia, Falesti, Falesti District, Ukraine Community Description Falesti boasts a population of approximately 18,000 residents, although an estimated 5,000 citizens left the town to the capital or other countries in search of better work and educational opportunities. There is high unemployment and an average local income is approximately $150 per month. Many families have […]
Location Kiziguro Sector, Gatsibo District, Rwanda Community Description Eastern Rwanda is relatively dry, particularly during the dry season. Kiziguro Primary School, located in the Gatsibo District of the Eastern Province of Rwanda, serves 1,126 primary students and 570 secondary students. The school is supported by a Catholic church, which is located nearby. Similar to a […]
Location Cyahinda Sector, Southern Province, Rwanda Community Description Cyahinda is a small sector located in the Southern Province of Rwanda near the border of Burundi. The sector is part of the only district in Rwanda without electricity, and is quite isolated from the nearest towns. 90% of citizens are subsistence farmers, surviving solely on what […]
Location Novoukrainka, Kirovohradska Oblast, Ukraine Community Description Novoukrainka is a regional center with a population of nearly 20,000 people, located in the Kirovohradska Oblast of central Ukraine, approximately 65 kilometers from Kirovohrad (the oblast center). Novoukrainka is desperately trying to recover after the collapse of some industrial businesses, including a sugar plant factory and the […]
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 […]
This project has been completed under the direction of Peace Corps Volunteer Sarah Casey. To read about the beginning of the project, CLICK HERE. This project, to build a ferro-cement tank for water storage, was the third to be implemented under Water Charity’s Ferro-Cement Tanks for the Dominican Republic and Haiti Program. It was the […]
Location Fass Pathe Kande, Kolda, Senegal Community Description Fass Pathe Kande is a small Pulaar farming community located approximately 3 kilometers north of Kounkane, in the region of Kolda. It is comprised of 181 persons in 12 main households. Fass Pathe Kande has a local primary school that also serves four additional villages, for a […]
Huanaco, Peru is a community of approximately 140 households and 600 inhabitants. The vast majority of the adults in the community work in the fields of agricultural companies, from sun-up to sun-down, six days a week, for approximately ten U.S. dollars a day. Eighty-two percent of the homes have a latrine that was built by […]
Location Pethie, Djilor, Foundiougne, Fatick, Senegal Community Description Pethie is a rural village in the Djilor area. There are a total of 378 people living in 22 compounds with 42 households or families. The village chief is named Ngor Diouf. There is no electricity or running water, and the village is approximately 2.5 km away […]
Location Nyamugari, Gasaka, Nyamagabe District, Southern Province, Rwanda Community Description Nyamagabe district, located in the Southern province of Rwanda, has a population of 319,786 people. The majority of community members are farmers who grow tea, coffee, bananas, potatoes, beans and cabbage. Nyamagabe district is known for having some of the best academic educational secondary school […]