Kurtz Humanitarian Initiative for Southwest Honduras

 

WATER PROJECT

 

Our medical team repeatedly treats water borne illnesses and infections that would not have occurred or spread if soap and clean water were available for bathing. We are also concerned for the lives of women in the villages who spend inordinate amounts of their daily lives carrying water and suffering from chronic neck and back pain as a result. Finally, clean drinking water is a problem which must be addressed in  these villages.

 

We have undertaken a long-term project to improve the water facilities at Morocopay and Puerto Grande. Engineers Without Borders will provide engineering services for this project. In September a group of engineers  and engineering students  from the Polytechnique Institute in Honduras went to the village of Puerto Grande to review this project with the people of that community. We have a rather detailed plan of the improvements which must be made to the water treatment and distribution system in these communities. The estimated cost of this project is $61,000 for each community. We have started fundraising efforts to raise money for th ese much needed project s Now that we have a plan and an estimate of the costs we are exploring different options for financing this project.

 

          

Wells in Morocopay                           Pastor Vasquez, Community Leader

                                                                In Moropocay

   

We have developed a relationship with a new partner, Engineers Without Borders (E.W.B.). This is a university professor/student organization which is active in the U.S. and in many foreign countries. They will help  usimprove the water supply in the communities we serve.