Clean water for 270 Filipino Villagers
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Currently, villagers must walk down and back up steep hills with heavy containers to retrieve water, limiting hygiene, sanitation, and irrigation. Water born illnesses are common and nutrition levels are low. Women must go to the river to do laundry all day, instead of caring for their children, livestock, and vegetable gardens. In collaboration with Alternative Indigenous Development Foundation (AIDF) and Green Empowerment will install an innovative pump to bring clean running water to 270 people in Sitio Tinumpagan village in the Philippines. Clean and accessible water will ensure the vitality of the village indefinitely. Water borne illnesses will be minimized, children will have more time for school and play, women's work will be simplified, and farmers' fields will be better tended.
The project uses the hydraulic ram pump, a technologically appropriate system that uses the energy of falling water to transport a portion of that water to a much greater height; water from a stream or a spring will be pumped to a village or irrigation scheme. AIDF will construct the system with support from the community.
