Last year
we met Juana San Amparas, a woman living in the village of Chinantón, Guatemala. Juana is a widow with
several children. In addition to chores too numerous to list, she collected water
each day so that her family could drink, cook, and bathe. This task became
a tremendous burden during the dry season when the local spring dried up and
she had to walk several hours to collect water of extremely poor quality. Juana
is like so many women we’ve met - inestimable hours of their lives are lost to
water-collection. It boggles the mind.
As of last
November, with the help of HOPE International Development Agency, the people of
Chinantón, including Juana, were volunteering their time and energy on a
gravity-fed water system that would bring clean water from the nearby mountains
right to the village, throughout the year.
We are
happy to report that this work is now complete; Juana is now able to collect
the clean water for her family from nearby her home. Our efforts to help
the poorest of the poor in Guatemala to gain access to reliable clean water
sources continue. We are now looking at providing water for another community
called Los Llanos. You can rest assured that there are many more like Juana
there.
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