Location: Three kilometers SW of Belisario Dominguez, Chiapas, Mexico, on the Pacific side of the Sierra Madre Mountains, Ejido Ampliación Arenal Problem to be addressed: Build a new water system to replace that lost in a natural disaster in 1998 In southern Mexico, over the last 20 years, there have been extreme weather events in the Sierra Madre […]
Passy Chally Village, Upper Niumi District, North Bank Region, The Gambia. West Africa; GPS Coordinates: N13°29.983 W016°17.443 DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT COMMUNITY Passy Chally is a community situated about 4 Kilometers south of Ndungu-Kebbeh via the North Bank Trans-Gambia highway. About 1300 people live in the community, which consists of 51 households. The community is made up […]
Dobong Kunda School was the direct result of a Peace Corps volunteer working with the community to advocate with the Ministry on behalf of the community’s children. Since its founding as a 3-classroom school in 2013, it has grown to an enrollment of 448 students in 6 grades. Of those, 263 are girls. Dobong Kunda […]
This project is made possible with the partnership of Water Charity & The Yurok Nation LocationYurok Nation, Humboldt County, Northwest California, USA Community Description Yurok Indian Reservation is located from the confluence of the Klamath and Trinity Rivers in the Village of Weych-pues (Weitchpec) and follows the Klamath into the ocean at the village of Requa (part of the town of Klamath) […]
Barrio Tierra Linda Water Project Final Report It is the dry season in the Sierra Madre, the time when people suffer the hardships caused by the extreme scarcity of water. Nevertheless, for the first time, the people in Barrio Tierra Linda are feeling relieved to know that they now have enough water for their household […]
JARRA WEST, LOWER RIVER REGION Households in Jarra West district are highly vulnerable to food insecurity, which can be attributed to the fact that many of the households in the districts are not strictly agrarian. The main economic activity is trade, especially in the town of Soma, where there are daily and weekly markets (Lumos). […]
Location: Motozintla, Chiapas, Mexico Description of the Community: Tierra Linda, Beautiful Place, is the name the residents gave to theirneighborhood on the outskirts of the mountain town of Motozintla in Chiapas, Mexico. Their homes arelocated on the ridge rising steeply from the town’s central plaza until it reaches the continental divide ofthe Sierra Madre Mountains. Over 15 […]
Lower River Region’s Jarra Central Handpump Repair Tour Water Charity’s Lower River Region water remediation tour seeks to repair five village handpumps in the Gambia’s Jarra Central District, an important region for inter-territorial trade and movement between The Gambia and Senegal given its location abutting the Trans-Gambia Highway, the main artery connecting the Senegalese province […]
Location of Project Njie Kunda, Central River Region, Fulladu West, The Gambia Description of Project Community Located just south of the Gambian River and off of the South Bank Road, this region of seven villages is composed primarily of subsistence farmers. Each small rural village is connected to one another by craggy dirt roads. Njie […]
In Kiang East, as in the rest of rural The Gambia, declining per capita food production has been a long-standing problem. This problem is compounded by a projected near-doubling of the country population. The situation is particularly worrisome in rural settlements where farmers have lost 25% of their purchasing power over the years due to […]