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AMOUNT: $12,000
US
PROJECT LEADERS: Jay Graham, Claudia Janet Laffont Castañón
INSTITUTIONS: University of Texas at El Paso and AQUA
21, A.C.
Agua para Beber, a non-profit organization, is a community
based program in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico
for improving water quality and promoting safe hygiene
practices in low-income border communities. The project
addressed local environmental health problems –
drinking water – that directly affect children's
health. In addition, this project trained and assisted
local community groups in developing their capacity
to assess and address their own environmental health
problems. The program combined a hygiene education and
water purification program with the distribution of
low-cost, drinking water receptacles and used the services
of community health promoters for its implementation.
The goal of the program was to offer an intermediate
solution to help improve the safety of drinking water,
and thus, the quality of life for border residents.
The project leads University of Texas at El Paso and
Aqua 21, A.C. partnered with the Universidad Autónoma
de Ciudad Juárez, to train local community based
organizations and implemented the program in three communities
located in the fringe areas of Cd. Juárez, improving
the lives of more families in need.
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