We are currently building a 230,00 gallon reservoir to receive the water that will be pumped from a local spring.

A major challenge for the health services of this rural community is the difficult access to drinking water. A peasant has to walk nearly one hour through the very steep mountains to fetch some drinking water from a spring.

Due to the bad road conditions, a child can carry only about 2 gallons of water at one time and odds are that is sometimes contaminated with microbes and bacteria. In the past few years, the clinic has treated several outbreaks of water-born diseases such as typhoid.

That is why CORRECT Health has made its priority to distribute drinking water to the community. To-date, we have engaged a professional hydraulic engineering firm to design and build the infrastructure needed for improving the distribution of potable water in the area.

A solar powered pump connected to a local spring distributes more than 50,000 gallons of water per day to local community members through 8 water distribution points. Water is stored in two newly constructed reservoirs with storage capacity of over 230,000 gallons.

Project

The project is quite costly and has been estimated at $250,000 (US) Because of our limited resources, the project has been broken down into three different phases:

Phase 1

Use some solar pumps to bring the water to the main reservoir in town, making safe drinking water more accessible to the community

Phase 2

Water distribution to the community through 8 water points

Phase 3

Water distribution to the community through 8 water points

Next Step

CORRECT Health has already committed over $ 100,000 to this project and we have completed phase II. The next step will be to add pipes over a length of about 1 km to bring the water from the clinic to the new school sponsored by Real Madrid. We will continue to raise funds in order to advance the project and complete Phase III.