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 […]
This project has been completed under the direction of Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Mark Cox. To read about the beginning of the project, CLICK HERE. This project was to build three new toilets in the village. Mark reports: The three bathrooms are completed on time, and look good. Two are adjacent to the main field […]
This project has been completed under the direction of Peace Corps Volunteer Katharine Auchter. To read about the beginning of the project, CLICK HERE. This project was to repair and upgrade the well in Dacia. Katharine reports: The well is currently up and running and people have access to the water again. Work started almost […]
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 […]
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. […]
This project has been completed under the direction of Peace Corps Volunteer Lynae Slinden. To read about the beginning of the project, CLICK HERE. This project was to provide clean water for drinking and washing hands for the children and teachers of the youth center by bringing water from a pipe in the school yard […]
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 […]