This has been an exciting month and a half for us, as we have had the privilege of hosting Operation Blessing (Operacion Bendicion Mexico) out at our village bases. They along with our team have been hard at work tackling two main projects. The first being nutrition and putting in a community garden (more to come on that soon) as well as a water purification project.
They have come in with their staff and tested all the water throughout the communities we reach. Both in homes, schools and at our bases. Through their testing they have found that we have some of the highest levels of E-Coli they have on record.
Though we are not surprised by that, we are working together to find a solution.
This week, they installed 4 drinking fountains throughout the community. One at each of our bases and one at two separate local schools. The system will work off of rain water, and will go through a multiple filtration process before being purified.
We will use the non-purified clean water for washing dishes while we will use the purified water for everyday drinking and usage.
Our hope is that as we educate and introduce the community to clean water we will once again begin to see a healthier community as a whole.
If you would like to be apart of our water project, you can make a donation here. Every penny helps.