Location Kinihira village, Rutsiro district, Rwanda Community Description Kinihira is a rural village of 118 households in Western Rwanda, bordering Gishwati forest. The village was settled after the 1994 genocide, largely by returning refugees. It is located 1-2 hours from the main road to Gisenyi and has limited access to goods, as the nearest market […]
Location Odambang 2 Commune, Sangker District, Battambang Province, Cambodia Community Description Embedded in the rural, predominately subsistence-living agricultural community of Odambang Commune II, in 1992, Buddhist Monk, Venerable Muny Van Saveth, established the Wat Norea Peaceful Children’s Home II. The home was a monk’s religiously grounded and community-based reconstruction response to the devastating aftermath of […]
Location Puok District Town, Siem Reap Province, Cambodia Community Description Puok is a small district town, located about 13 km from the famous Angkorian Temple Complex, which includes Angkor Wat. Despite the tourism that the temples bring to the region, Siem Reap Province remains one of the three poorest provinces out of Cambodia’s twenty-four provinces. […]
Water Charity has embarked on a project to immediately establish a system to disseminate safe water to rural communities impacted by the earthquake in Haiti. We are undertaking this in partnership with Deep Springs International (DSI), an NGO that has been working for three years to provide for potable water in rural areas of Haiti. […]
This is a project to remediate severe flooding at an elementary school, the Escuela Primaria “Estado de Colima, in El Male’ Chiapas, Mexico. This project is being implemented in partnership with the Sexto Sol Center, a U.S. 50(c)(3) non-profit, with a mission to contribute to the elimination of poverty and the restoration of the damaged […]
Water Charity began with the premise of doing water and sanitation projects that were easy to implement and had high impact. Most new organizations begin this way, as they are able to build up a string of successes quickly. But what about the hard projects in difficult places? Who does those? The ongoing conflict in […]