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Estamos visitando a la comunidad selva viva.

This month MedWater director Darrell Adams, hosted by Fundación MedWater, visited 10 Kichwa communities. Five communities were celebrating water improvements, and requesting new health projects such as family latrines. Five communities are new and have approached Fundación MedWater seeking collaboration for water improvements and/or latrines.

Fundación MedWater does outstanding work in developing these projects and the communities bring a high level of participation and on-going commitment to maintaining these improvements. The main resource that is not available locally is funds for materials. What an opportunity you have to participate by funding these projects by your donation. Please donate: medwater.org/donate
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In Las Maravillas there was an inauguration celebration for improvements to their water source and the water pipes to the community and also the safe water station. Darrell Adams, Director of MedWater USA was on hand to receive presentations and gifts of appreciation from the community for MedWater's support. Darrell thanked the people of the community and the leadership of Fundatión MedWater staff for their great work in planning and accomplishing the improvements. This is a great accomplishment! There was lots of delicious food and dancing of course!

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Tuesday 4/23 Fundación MedWater was in Pura Chitka introducing the Table of Good Health. The table is supported by three legs, each necessary for good health; safe water, sanitation, and hygiene education. Pura Chitka is new in this process with Fundación MedWater.

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Monday 4/22 Fundación MedWater is in community Selva Viva training volunteers on the water treatment device. MedWater has been collaborating with this community since 2016. Maintaining on-going public health practices involves retraining as different individuals take on the responsibility for water treatment. Part of the journey to Selva Viva is by boat on the Napo River!

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Saturday the Fundación MedWater team was In the community of Tamia Urku changing damaged water treatment accessories. Our collaboration with this community began in 2021.
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The Fundación MedWater team yesterday doing routine maintenance on water treatment tanks, replacing the water spigot and cleaning the tank. They were in Las Maravillas and Runish*to. Pictured are Jeremias, Jessica, Lucila and the driver who enjoys helping!
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This week Fundación MedWater has been meeting with community members in Chambria explaining the water directive, and also repairing equipment with the water system in Sumak Sacha. Everyday Fundación MedWater is improving public health in Kichwa communities.

MARCH 22, 2024 - World Water Day

We need to move much faster. We need to work six times faster on drinking water, five times faster on sanitation and three times faster on hygiene. At the current speed, in 2030, 2 billion people will still be living without safely managed drinking water, 3 billion without safely managed sanitation, and 1.4 billion without basic hygiene services.https://www.unwater.org/sites/default/files/2023-07/sdg6_synthesis_report_2023_key_findings_and_recommendations.pdf

The water improvement installation in Las Maravillas that began the first of the year continues inspite of heavy rains. Specific Objectives are to reduce child malnutrition in the Las Maravillas neighborhood of the Chontapunta parish and improve the quality of life of the sector's inhabitants. These objectives are being locally implemented by collaboration between the members of the Las Maravillas community and Foundation MedWater, lead by Lucila Vargas, Director, and Civil Engineer Maritza Tapuy.

The work on the Las Maravilas pipe line continues. There are areas where the pipe must be suspended because of the terrain. Where the pipe is buried they are covering. So much good work!

The water from the source is piped down to the community to a tank where it is filtered to remove suspended matter and then chlorinated to kill the biological contaminates. The water improvement project is replacing old pipe that has cracked and leaks, reducing the amount of water that gets to the community. The tank is being cleaned in preparation for the new water line. The work is accomplished by community members, supervised by the engineer and Fundación MedWater staff.

More photos of the water supply improvement in Las Maravillas. This community is located in the Amazon region, its territory is surrounded by the western mountain range in the west and in the east by the Amazon plain. The distance from the water source to the treatment tank is about 800 meters.

Work on improving the community water source and the installation of plumbed water has begun!

¡Han comenzado los trabajos de mejora de la fuente de agua de la comunidad y la instalación de agua entubada!

MedWater is happy to welcome 2024! The tradition of new expectations that come with a new cycle of the calendar are an encourager of change. Improving public health is certainly a needed change that we advocate and participate in creating. We invite your participation!

¡MedWater se complace en dar la bienvenida a 2024! La tradición de nuevas expectativas que acompaña a un nuevo ciclo del calendario es un estímulo para el cambio. Mejorar la salud pública es sin duda un cambio necesario que defendemos y en cuya creación participamos. ¡Te invitamos a participar!

Comunidad Maravillas!

Comunidad Chambira y otro Comunidad Selva Amazónico

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From Fundación MedWater - We are working in coordination and training new promoters and also new teachers at the Sacha Yachana Wuasi Selva Viva school. We also have volunteer teachers from Switzerland.

Fundación MedWater has obtained a 2500 liter treatment tank for the community of San Vicente.
They refer to the community members as partners and they invite the “partners” to socialize and plan to work for water purification.

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