Only 62 percent of rural Senegalese have access to safe water. Even in areas where the supply of water is plentiful, waterways, wells, storage tanks, and piping systems are often contaminated. In 2012, Water Charity recognized the evolving technology becoming available to purify contaminated water, and started the Filters for Life Program – Worldwide. The […]
This project has been completed under the direction Liz Love, Adult Literacy Director of Safe Passage. To read about the beginning of the project, CLICK HERE. The project was to provide 35 additional Ecofiltro ceramic water filters to serve 280 persons, comprised of families enrolled in the Adult Literacy Program. The background of the project […]
This is a follow-up to the great project completed last year in partnership with Safe Passage, a Guatemala-based NGO. To read about that project, CLICK HERE. The population to be served is a portion of the 3,000 people who live and work in Central America’s largest landfill, the Guatemala City Garbage Dump. These people spend […]
Location 16 communities in the San Juan Province, Dominican Republic, as set forth below Community Description San Juan is a Dominican province, in the western part of the Dominican Republic with a population of over 232,000. San Juan de la Maguana is the capital city and the largest city in the province, with a population […]
This project has been completed under the direction of RPCV Jeremy Mak. To read about the beginning of the project, CLICK HERE. This project was designed to secure access to clean drinking water for small, underserved satellite villages in Gambia’s Niamina East District, all of whom rely exclusively on dirty, open wells due to hand pump […]
Super Typhoon Haiyan, known as Yolanda in the Philippines, has been a true calamity for those who had to endure its awesome storm surge and 195 mph winds. As most of you know, Tacloban city bore the brunt of what looks to be the strongest storm on record to ever make landfall. Lt. Col. Marciano […]
Location Quebrada Grande de Nandayure, Guanacaste, Costa Rica Community Description Quebrada Grande de Nandayure is a small, isolated, rural community located in a mountainous area of the Nicoya Peninsula in the Guanacaste province of Costa Rica. The town has a population of 140, the majority of whom work in the agriculture of oranges and coffee. […]
Workers at Central America’s largest landfill, Guatemala City’s Garbage Dump live and work in some of the most wretched conditions one could imagine. They clamber all day long over mountains of teetering trash, fighting with wild dogs and buzzards for scraps to sell. It is dangerous work. Methane fires, medical waste, rusty metal and even worse things […]
Water Charity is being considered as the charity to be featured at the Americas Deals of the Year 2013 Awards Dinner to be held March 13, 2014 in Cipriani, New York. Water Charity has prepared a program for the occasion entitled Project Finance Americas Water Program to address the need for clean water and effective […]
This project is made possible through the partnership of Water Charity and the National Peace Corps Association. Location Pahaj, Santa Lucia Utatlan, and San Juan la Laguna communities – Sololá, Guatemala Community Description All of the communities reside in Solola, the second poorest department of Guatemala, where 94% of the families live on less than $3.00 per day. Problem Addressed […]