Location Aldea Miman Moq’lil, Santa Eulalia, Huehuetenango, northwestern Guatemala Community Description This indigenous Mayan community inhabits a small rural mountainside village in the north of the department of Huehuetenango, Guatemala. The roughly one thousand inhabitants, comprising some one hundred families, are among the poorest people in the municipality and the region. Homes are simple, usually […]
Location Caserío Chuipoj, Santa María Visitación, Sololá, Guatemala Community Description The Hamlet Chuipoj, municipality of Santa María Visitación, department of Sololá, is located to the south of its municipality and to the west of its department. It is 4 kilometers from its municipality, 44 km from the capital department, and 164 km from the capital […]
This project uses an agricultural technology known as alley cropping. Trees are planted in alleys and alternated with crops to improve soil quality, improve water retention, prevent erosion, provide wood for fodder and fuel, prevent deforestation, eliminate much labor and thus make a sustainable system of agriculture. A local river will provide water for needed […]
Location Kinyaga Village, Cyahinda Sector, Southern Province, Rwanda Community Description The villages of Saburunduru and Kinyaga in the Sector of Cyahinda lie atop a mountain in the Southern Province of Rwanda, near the Burundian border. Geographically stunning, but without electricity, none of the households have access to running water. Cyahinda is very rural and quite […]
Location Katima Village, Ntchisi District, Malawi Community Description Katima Village is a small rural village in central Malawi. The people are subsistence farmers who grow their food needs and raise some tobacco and soya for their cash needs. Chitunda Primary School, located in Katima Village, has 625 children who attend from the surrounding villages. A […]
Location Thmar Puok, Banteay Meanchey, Cambodia Community Description Thmar Puok District town is located in the northwest Province of Banteay Meanchey 50 kilometers north of the Provincial Capital of Serei Sophon. One of the biggest concerns for people in Thmar Puok is the shortage of water. In the dry season, sanitation decreases because of the […]
Location Mbul Waly, Fatick, Senegal Community Description Mbul Waly is a small village in the Djilor area. It has a total of 124 people living in 10 homesteads with 12 households or families. There is no electricity or running water in the village, which is located 4 km away from the nearest paved road. The […]
Location Murehe, Eastern Province, Rwanda Community Description Tucked away in a distant corner of Rwamagana District lies the village of Murehe. Murehe is perched atop a cascade of green hills in the Muyumbu sector of the Rwamagana District. Though geographically close to the capital city of Kigali, Murehe seems worlds apart, as it is largely […]
Location Arkhangai province, Mongolia Community Description The Arkhangai province is located in the central-west region of Mongolia. The population is 89,331. and of this, it is estimated that there are 37,443 children ages 0-18 (42% of the population). The Department for Children will open a summer camp that will operate June 20 – August 21, […]
Location Mdzelanji and Salcale, Ntchisi District, Malawi Community Description Both of these villages are made up of very rural subsistence farming families. Mdzelanji is a village near the secondary school where some of the students’ board and approximately 15 families get their water. Salcale is also a very rural subsistence farming village, and approximately 12 […]