Location Bisate Health Center, Kinigi Sector, Musanze District, Northern Province, Rwanda Community Description Bisate is a rural, impoverished community located in a region of Rwanda that receives consistent and abundant rainfall throughout the year. The Bisate Health Center provides vital services to the community, including deliveries, consultations, wound dressing, laboratory procedures and basic hygiene procedures, […]
Location Sdao Santepheup High School, Sdao Village, Battambang, Cambodia Community Description The area was one of the fronts of the civil war in the 1990s, and the town has only existed for about 15 years. The town is growing, with recently paved roads and a new bank building. Sdao Santepheup High School is the only […]
Location Misuku, Chitipa, Malawi, Africa Community Description The community is made up mostly of subsistence farmers who draw water from the mountain streams that are currently unprotected. The construction will take place in the remote areas of Misuku in various mountainside villages where there is a need for safe drinking water. Project Description This project […]
Water Charity is participating in a project to provide sanitary bathrooms in a small rural community in Paraguay. The project is being carried out under the direction of Peace Corps Volunteer Michelle Pfister. This project will provide latrines for 21 families, comprised of 120 adults and children. It is a natural extension of a project […]
Water Charity is participating in a program to deliver bio-sand filters to the people of Haiti. A relief effort was begun shortly after the devastating earthquake and is continuing in the aftermath. It will be expanded as quickly as possible to provide safe water to the population over the longer term. The bio-sand filters being […]
Water Charity has started a project to deliver water filters to Haiti at once. Under the direction of Ryan Sinclair, Dr.P.H, filters are being set up in and near Port-au-Prince to dispense safe water immediately. The Center for Public Health Preparedness at Loma Linda University has sent a team to assess the needs and deliver […]
This project is to construct a water distribution system in a rural community in the Dominican Republic. Water from a protected mountain spring will be transported by gravity through a system of piping a distance of three kilometers to the community below. Water Charity is participating in this project, which involves a number of other […]
This project is a community-led reforestation effort, designed to counter the effects of environmental degradation in the semi-arid region of the Extreme North of Cameroon. Cameroon is bordered by Nigeria on the west, Chad on the northeast, the Central African Republic on the east, and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo on […]
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 project is to build a 1200 liter rainwater catchment tank, with an accompanying handwashing station, at an elementary school in La Cruz, Cajola, Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. The tank will hold a 2-week supply of water for the 285 students that attend the school. The Escuela Oficial Rural Mixta has little access to water, consisting of […]