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Raise a Glass for Clean Drinking Water

3/22/2018

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March 22 is World Water Day, and we have some real successes to celebrate this year.   

Our Water and Sanitation Hygiene (WASH) in Schools Project has several goals. In addition to improving bathroom facilities and training the community on maintenance and the importance of practicing bathroom hygiene, WASH also focuses on making safe drinking water accessible to students in rural schools.

Since WASH has initiated, we have partnered with 10 rural schools to improve sanitations facilities, provide drinking water, and train students on the importance of healthy hygiene habits!
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One of these schools is Nueva Vida Primary School. Pablo Eulogio, our WASH Project Coordinator, has been developing and testing water filters made out of coffee grounds (you can read more about this here). We use this filter in the office, and we have just delivered a water filtering system to Nueva Vida Primary School so they can filter tap water into safe drinking water.

"The high temperatures, physical education class, and the overall energy it takes to be a kid leads
students to drink tap water without realizing that it is not safe to do so" said Pablo, "it’s very important to provide students with a safe source of potable water so they can  hydrate without getting sick" he added.

Filtering drinking water is especially important in rural communities like the ones we work in. Twenty-one percent of households do not treat water before drinking it.* Outdated infrastructure and limited access to clean running water result in the many risks of drinking contaminated water.

​The most common consequence are parasites and diarrheal disease, health problems that often lead to students missing school, and can even lead to death. The UN estimates that globally, nearly 1,000 children a day die due to preventable water and sanitation-related diarrhoeal diseases. Unsafe drinking water, lack of access to clean water, and inadequate sanitation facilities all contribute these losses.
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On this World Water Day, let’s celebrate the successes we’ve made towards ensuring that every child has access to safe drinking water--water that keeps them hydrated, healthy and ready to learn. We at Pueblo a Pueblo promise to continue working with rural communities to create healthy environments for students. Let’s raise a glass to clean drinking water!

*2017 Guatemalan National Institute of Statistics
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A New Library is on the Horizon

3/19/2018

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Current state of the Patzilin Abaj library
The last few months have been hectic and exciting as we’ve partnered with another school to create a Pueblo a Pueblo certified lending library. Patzilin Abaj Primary School will be the third active school to implement our Pathways to Literacy (PTL) Project.

The first step of the project is to improve the library space. The school has a designated space, which makes our process a lot easier. But the space needs a lot of work before it can be called a functional and inviting lending library.

One big obstacle this library has is accessibility to materials. Half of the reading materials are randomly stacked in china cabinets that are too high for the younger children to reach. The rest of the books are in large plastic storage containers, with no labels, and mixed in with empty boxes of games and game pieces.

​We hope to work with Patzilin Abaj to create a space that is organized, accessible and inviting, a space that encourages kids to spend time in the library and borrow books. Our vision for this library is to have appropriate and safe furniture, an investigation corner, a reading section, a designated area for games and a librarian who can teach the children how to find books, using a color coding method that is easy for the youngest readers.
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Of course, a library is only as good as its materials. Oftentimes, the schools we work with have very limited resources and few reading materials. Our Pathways to Literacy team prides itself on taking the time and effort to stock the library with books that can serve as mirrors of themselves and also portals to other worlds for the students.

“When deciding what books to order for the library, we try to find books that have illustrations, elements, characters, and situations that students from these schools can identify with and be inspired by,” says Esther Dominguez, Pathways to Literacy Project Manager.  “We also try to get books that are completely different from their surroundings and talk about diversity so they can foster their creativity, ” she added. 
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Children enjoying an already renovated library
We’re months away from welcoming students into a space where creativity, adventure and knowledge will be at their fingertips, and in a community where 20% of women and 8% of men are completely illiterate,* lending libraries that are specially designed for students in rural communities are a vital tool for sustainable change.  

*2017 Guatemalan National Institute of Statics, literacy in Solola Department
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