Location Tropayang Chrai Village, Chhouk Commune, Chhouk District, Kampot Province, Cambodia Community Description Tropayang Chrai Village rests 3.5 kilometers from National Highway 3 in Chhouk District, Kampot Province, a southwestern province in the Kingdom of Cambodia. The village consists of 335 families, roughly 1,400 people, spread over 263 hectares. Most families are farmers, while others […]
Location Ngaraff, Linguere, Louga, Senegal Community Description Ngaraff is a 400-person community located on the national highway near the town of Linguere, in the department of Linguere, region of Louga, Senegal. The population of the village is primarily composed of ethnic Wolof people surviving on the subsistence farming of millet, peanuts, and beans. There is […]
Location Embera Puru, Chagres National Park, Colon, Panama Community Description The community of Embera Puru is a rural indigenous tribe located along the Rio San Juan de Piquini inside the Chagres National Park in Panama. Within the village, there are about 100 residents, including children, with a 10% growth in the last year. All families […]
Location Guia, St. Louis Region, Senegal Community Description Guia is a town of 6,000 people in the St. Louis region of Northern Senegal. Its only school is the primary school where 400 children attend yearly. The school itself receives water from a nearby forage (hand-powered water pump). Most of the people in Guia are of […]
Location Kaniga, Gicumbi, Northern Province, Rwanda Community Description The Kaniga sector, District of Gicumbi, Northern Province, Republic of Rwanda is a rural area, composed mainly of poor agro-pastoralists and subsistence farmers. The Mulindi Health Center is the primary intake facility for the sick in the area, serving a population of almost 17,000. The service area […]
Location La Laguneta, San Juan Nonualco, La Paz, El Salvador Community Description La Laguneta is a small community of about 650 people situated on the side of the San Vicente volcano. The majority of the people work as day laborers in the coffee fincas which surround the community and cover the volcano. The community suffers […]
Location Talas Oblast Lyceum Complex, Talas City, Kyrgyzstan Community Description Talas City is the oblast center of Talas Oblast, which is located in the Talas Valley in northwestern Kyrgyzstan near the Kazakh border. The city’s current population is about 30,000. Talas City was originally founded as a Russian trading town in the late 1800’s, but […]