Tom Reade|Peace Corps

A NGO run by former Peace Corps volunteers named “Water Charity” helps sponsor very small water related projects in Peace Corps countries. They are small projects but big impact! My project is simple. We don’t have hot water in our school. The Soviets did build one when they built the school but its sewer fell into disuse and so the bathrooms and hot water system became unusable… Thus, our dishwasher is useless and the bigger problem is that in the winter- it makes it almost unbearable for the kids to wash their hands. The school has a built in heating system but it only works in the classrooms not the hallways- where the sinks for the kids to wash are of course… 

http://appropriateprojects.com/node/958

The idea is to install an electric hot water heater in the cafeteria and reroute the drainage to the town sewer and also connect the water to both the dishwasher and the sinks outside the cafeteria. If you’ve ever worked in food service, you know you need temperatures to be greater than 140 degrees Fahrenheit at MINIMUM to kill bacteria. I cannot even start to guess how many children have gotten sick due to this issue. Dish soap is great but its not always 100% 

http://appropriateprojects.com/node/958

So if you have some extra change kicking around, pitch in some for a hot water heater in my small rural village of Cazangic, por favor!

http://appropriateprojects.com/node/958