Help us keep building water resilience on Telica

The theme of World Water Week 2021 is Building Resilience Faster. This has been a focus of our mission and projects in our work with remote, marginalised communities for over a decade. Poverty and vulnerability are the sad reality for the Telica hillside communities we serve, and there is no quick and easy solution to build resilience to overcome it. With this campaign, we want to focus on one of the most significant challenges these families face: water scarcity.

It is almost impossible to imagine how these families can make progress given the amount of hours, energy, and resources they have to invest every day just to have enough water to drink and cook. Even rationing their use of water as strictly as possible, this is a hugely time-consuming task. Now, in the time of COVID-19, proper hygiene is fundamental to fight the pandemic, and the lack of enough clean water puts these people at an even greater disadvantage. The short video below features the Dávila Pérez family, one of many who have this daily struggle for water.

We are asking for your support to build water resilience faster in these communities where it is most needed. While sometimes we hear how people resign themselves to a reality they cannot change, we believe that with the right help we can change the lives of these families. We have seen it with our own eyes. Every family that has benefited from a rainwater harvesting tank, an improved spring or a water system, has experienced a great impact on their livelihoods. However, there are still lots of families on Telica waiting, hoping and praying that someday soon they too will benefit from access to clean water at home.

Please help us by donating and spreading the word, so water can reach the families who need it the most, soon.

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