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Our Mission

Improving the standard of living of poor people in Nicaragua through
sustainable self-help water, sanitation and reforestation projects.

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El Porvenir means "the future".

ProjectsClean water means a healthier future for rural Nicaraguans. In partnership with the people of Nicaragua, we help them build a future for themselves. Providing clean drinking water is the core of what El Porvenir is about; sanitation is necessary to ensure that the water is clean. In addition to sustainable water and sanitation projects, we provide health and hygiene education and reforestation.

Village boy in front of a new well that will provide his village with clean drinking water.
Patrick Bresnan
Village boy peeks out from behind a tree; reforestation is crucial to protecting the water source that his village depends on for their drinking water.
Rural Nicaraguan village where El Porvenir is partnering to bring clean water and hygienic sanitation to ensure a healthy future for these girls.
Patrick Bresnan
El Porvenir Educators go door to door to ensure that project beneficiaries have learned how to improve their hygiene habits and best use their new water and sanitation infrastructure.
Patrick Bresnan
El Porvenir partners with local schools on water and sanitation projects to ensure that children like these spend time in school rather than suffer from preventable diseases caused by dirty water and lack of sanitation.
Patrick Bresnan
Village girl looking out from a typical home.
Patrick Bresnan
Health education workshop: small break out groups brainstorm ways to improve personal, family, and community health.
Patrick Bresnan
Children in front of a village tree nursery: the trees will later be strategically planted around the community well and throughout the micro-watershed that the well depends on.
Patrick Bresnan
Community members rejoice at having clean and safe drinking water.
Patrick Bresnan
This village girl is cooking on her family’s new fuel-efficient stove that uses 60% less firewood than a traditional stove. It also has a chimney to take the smoke out of the home, reducing chronic eye and lung infections for village women.
Hygienic sanitation leads to better health, reduces medication expenses, and extends life up to 20 years.
Patrick Bresnan
El Porvenir encourages people to decorate their latrines, making it a place they are proud of and will use.
Patrick Bresnan
Without a village well, people come to creeks like this one to get water for drinking, bathing, and washing their clothing.
Wells are, on average, 15 meters deep; villagers often spend months getting through rock to reach water and achieve their dreams of clean water.
Hauling water is an every day chore across difficult paths when a village does not have a centrally located well. A full 5 gallon bucket weighs 40 pounds.
To ensure safety going through lone stretches, women and children often go together to haul water. Once they have a village well, the physical burden of carrying water long distances is greatly reduced and the well becomes the gathering place.
Village girl planting seeds in a tree nursery; the seedlings will later be strategically replanted throughout the micro-watershed.
Forest Woodward