Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Another Long Day at PRONOEI


We're Here to Serve
Another long day in the books at PRONOEI for our team, demonstrating the rest of the mother's receiving the water purification systems. Everyone seemed so excited to learn how to use these systems and they were eager to test them out and take them home to get them installed. We again traveled into homes to help install the systems. It was interesting to see how established each home was with such items as flooring, walls, kitchen appliances, and so on. Many homes had only dirt floors, very few had concrete poured and many homes were brick walls. Very few families had full kitchen appliances with most homes having just dual burner system that they currently use for boiling their water and cooking their food.
Families Buying Water at the Community Tank

Roughly a year ago, I was in Blue Mountain Jamaica  with Professor Nelson attempting to look into their water distribution system. It is interesting to be able to look at both systems and compare them. In Jamaica we met with the head of their water council to get information of the needs of the system, the current construction of their system, and the improvements of their system. We were willing to help with ideas to improve their system, but all they wanted us to do was help dig a hole to lay pipes which wasn’t the purpose of the trip. Conversely, here in Peru the mayor was ecstatic that we wanted to help and he wanted the help we were willing to give.  He got us a tour of their waste water treatment plant and wanted to come with us on the tour, but his schedule didn’t allow time. He knew the issues and wants to be involved with the solution which was opposite of how Jamaica was.

Visiting a Family
For me this trip showed the different yet still similar struggles that the world has. I compared this trip to Jamaica a lot and I found it interesting that for similar problems such as not having water their solutions were different, and the way they came about finding a solution could be completely opposite.
 
Submitted by  Karissa Brunette
 



 

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