Thursday, July 1, 2010


Millions of children die each year from diarrhea, a preventable disease.It is the leading killer of children under the age of five in Nicaragua. The Rotavirus that causes the disease is borne in contaminated water.

Number of people worldwide without access to drinking water: 884 million
Number of people worldwide without adequate sanitation: 2.6 billion

Percentage of Nicaraguan population without improved sanitation facilities: 52
Percentage of Nicaraguan rural population without improved sanitation facilities:66

Monte Fresco
One village. 520 people. 140 families. 120 latrines. $60,000 materials cost.

I expressed my fears of not getting the funding to my father. He reminded me that the US spends 255 million dollars a day in Iraq.

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. . .Imagination encircles the world."
-Albert Einstien


One village. 520 people. 140 families. 120 latrines.
Rotary Club. El Porvenir. FSD.

here we go.

1 comment:

  1. Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world.
    Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves.
    All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.
    -George Bernard Shaw

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