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El Porvenir: Clean Water for Nicaragua

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 girl planting seeds in a tree nursery; the seedlings will later be strategically replanted throughout the micro-watershed.
Forest Woodward
Village girls in front of a new well that will provide their village with clean drinking water.
Nile Sprague
Rural Nicaraguan villages who partner with El Porvenir bring clean water and hygienic sanitation to ensure a healthy future for their children.
Forest Woodward
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.
Nile Sprague
El Porvenir partners with local schools to ensure that children like these spend time in school rather than suffer from preventable diseases caused by dirty water and lack of sanitation.
Nile Sprague
Clean water lowers the incidences of water related diseases, leaving children happy and healthy.
Travis Tidmore
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
A fuel-efficient stove 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 partners with local schools on water and sanitation projects.
Without a village well, people come to creeks like this one to get water for drinking, bathing, and washing their clothing.
Nile Sprague
Wells are, on average, 15 meters deep; villagers often spend months getting through rock to reach water and achieve their dreams of clean water.
Forest Woodward
Women and children often travel great distances to collect water. A spring capture system reduces this burden by bringing the water to a distribution tank closer to home. Here, villagers are installing pipes for their spring capture system.
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.

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