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 […]