2008

North 24 Parangas District in West Bengal, India

2007

Potrerillos Drilled Well Project

2006 

Healthy Schools 2005 Program

2005 

Four Training Workshops to Focus on Water Chlorination and Safe Water Treatment, Guatemala The primary goal of the four workshops is to provide training in chlorination and safe water treatment practices at the community level, municipal level, and household level to promote the availability of safe water to residents of Guatemalan communities, municipalities and aldeas (small communities).

Pujujil School Latrine Project, Guatemala Association Maya is a co-op of women weavers that started at the end of the civil war as a source of income for women who had lost their husbands and family members.  Water for People Guatemala has been working with these women for the past six years.  This project would be part of the ongoing effort to improve the sanitation and water conditions for the communities where the women live.

2005 AWWOA  

Alba Rancho Bolivia  (click to view pictures and report)  The project funded by the 2005 AWWOA Annual Conference included 40 bathrooms, hand washing stations and showers and benefited 200 people in the local community.

2004 

	Solola Latrine Project, Phase One, Guatemala 20 handwashing stations will be built in 19 schools in the district of Solola. The construction will take place during three phases. The project will be carried out in partnership with the Paroquia of San Lucas Toliman and doctors from the Nebraska Health Science Center. Together, these two organizations have put together a team of health promoters and doctors who already promote health and hygiene, and provide medical clinics in local communities. The aim of the partnership is to provide an integrated program for increasing the level of health and hygiene in school children. As such the schools selected for the construction of handwashing stations will benefit from infrastructure enabling children to wash their hands. This project will ultimately benefit schoolchildren in 19 schools
	Las Palma Real Latrine Project, Honduras Palma Real is located in the San Luis Municipality and has benefited from the social growth of the area. The people are hard-working and work year round to cultivate the soil with corn and beans for their own consumption and sale in the market. The community already has a safe water system, installed by the partner organization a couple of years ago. They have operated and maintained the water system well and are now requesting latrines to help close the public health gap in their community. Currently, there are a few poorly constructed pit latrines for use; however, most community members use the open field to dispose of human waste. The members of each family will be responsible for the use and maintenance of the latrines. Experts from CRA, the Municipality and the local government will provide technical support and training in use and maintenance of the latrines. 73 families will benefit from this project.
	Five-Community Latrine Project, Bolivia The five communities are San Jose, Lazo Rancho, Azirumarca, Tamborada A and Tamborada B located near Cochabamba, Bolivia in the Cercado Province. By providing pour-flush household latrines to each family, the project will help decrease sanitation-related disease. Some families that have additional funds will also build a shower facility near their pour-flush latrine and create a bathroom for their home. In addition, health and hygiene education and proper maintenance of latrines training will be facilitated to create overall health improvement. 330 people will benefit from the project.

The Western Canada Committee assisted with the ongoing work in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam to improve water and sanitation facilities and basic hygiene knowledge for school children in and around the U Minh Thuong National Park buffer zone. In partnership with CARE Vietnam and the Kien Giang Provincial Education Department, the “Clean Water for Schools” program is a response to assessment findings that show a high incidence of health problems among children from 37 schools within the region. The illnesses encountered include stomachaches, diarrhea, headaches, and dengue fever, virtually all of which are water and sanitation related.

2003 AWWOA Project

Koari Medio is located in the Tiraque province in the Cochabamba Department.  The community is very poor and it people survive, primarily, on subsistence farming of potatoes, barley and oats. Animals are raised in the community, but are used only for sale and not for eating.  The objective of this project is to build 25 bathrooms and shower facilities for 25 families. A simple brick structure will be made to serve as the bathroom. One half of the bathroom structure will contain a pour-flush toilet and the other side a simple shower.  The community has already made bricks in anticipation of funding. Tin roofs have been cut to fit the structures and an infiltration well is already installed behind each bathroom.   Each family will contribute $20 to the cost of the project. WFP funding will go toward internal waterproofing, shower fixtures, lime (for the latrine), doors, toilets, facets, elbows and paint.  Project Beneficiaries:  25 families or 125 people

2002 Western Canada Section

The Western Canada Committee funded project BOL 0134 - Thola P'ujro Drinking Water Project.  Thola P’ujro is a rural community located outside the city of Cochabamba. The project is designed to help the community set-up a drinking water committee to maintain, repair and oversee the construction of the water system. Install the distribution network for 23 houses and one public tap for the local school. Build an adduction network. Give technical advice to the "drinking water committee". Carry out workshops regarding hygiene and water management.

The Western Canada Section Committee finished the funding the Healthy Schools Lavamano Project (GUA 0211) in Chimaltenango and Sólola, Guatemala. The project partner was the US Peace Corps and COMENSA. Project Description:  Several U.S. Peace Corps volunteers are requested funding for the construction of hand-washing stations (lavamanos) and water deposits at the eleven schools in the departments of Chimaltenango and Sólola. The Peace Corps volunteers are stationed in 11 schools in the communities of Patzun, San Andres Iztapa, San Lucas Toliman.  All schools are in small rural villages located in the western highlands of Guatemala.  Health and hygiene education and improvement is the primary focus of this project.  Lessons in correct hygiene behavior will be taught daily. The lavamanos are the intervention that will allow the students to actually practice what they have learned in the classroom. The Beneficiaries were 11 schools, approximately 1,200 students

The Western Canada Section Committee fully funded the Collericana Water Project (BOL 0153). The location of the project was the Community of Collericana, Puerto Acosta Department, Bolivia. The Project Partner was the Andean Rural Health Care, U.S. Peace Corps, Maryknoll Missionaries and the Puerto Acosta Municipality. The Project was designed to provide all 20 families and a local school with access to clean drinking water. A spring catchment system was constructed with lines leading to a storage tank. Two break pressure tanks will be constructed in order to control the pressure and 19 tapstands will be installed in order to provide each family with clean and convenient drinking water. The Andean Rural Health Care will be in charge of the health education component of the project and the Maryknoll missionary and the Peace Corps volunteer will work with the municipality to construct the system and train the community to maintain it. This project benefited 20 families

Machaj Water & Health Training Project (BOL 0136) – Machaj Marca is a poor community that has few financial resources. The project is designed to construct a 2000-litre water tank and distribution network to seven private tapstands and two public tapstands for the local school and orphanage. The AWWOA fully funded this project through their Association activities in March 0f 2002.

Malawai Primary School Pupils Hygiene and Sanitation Project. (Africa). The project was designed to construct one pit latrine (with four stalls) at Malawi School called Mulavi Primary School. In addition, the majority of project time will be spent with teachers, parents and students, teaching them about the importance of health and hygiene education. This project benefited 475 students directly and their families (indirectly). The funds were sent from Denver in the spring of 2002.

We raised funds for a gravity flow-system in Pamzul Guatemala. The project included the construction of two new spring boxes, one kilometer of spring line, a distribution tank and water connections to 40 homes and the school. In addition, six lavaderos (clothes washing stations) and a lavamano (hand-washing station) will be constructed for communal use. The cost was $2,415 US. (approx. 3670.00 CAD).

Laratay School Latrine and Shower Project (Cochabama, Bolivia) – This project supported the construction of three water seal toilets and a shower with septic tank and absorption well. Health and hygiene classes were taught with the hopes that school children will go home and explain the importance of latrines and sanitation to their parents.

Sumal Grande Water System Phase I, Guatemala. This project installed a new spring box, a 1.4 km, water line, and a five cubic meter distribution tank for 23 houses closest to the spring.

Village of Batzumal II in Guatemala. This project built a 450-liter tank with an overflow that the villagers use to increase their storage capacity. As well, a 55-gallon drum was given to each home for extra storage. 
The other project financed was in Cachuyo, Bolivia. This project provided one gravity-flow water system to the village of Cachuyo using a nearby mountain spring as the water source.

The Association raised enough funds to construct water and sanitation facilities in an additional 2 high schools in another part of India. This was an "add on" project to the 1999 Western Canada Section Project.

School Water, Latrine & Hygiene Awareness Project – India. This project installed wells with hand pumps, constructed latrines and performed hygiene education at four high schools.

A. Luoi District Water, Sanitation & Hygiene Education Project – Vietnam. This project helped support a number of schools buy installing water and sanitation facilities and facilitated a hygiene education program

Five School Water Project – Nebaj, Guatemala. This project funded two schools with the installation of washstands in the schools, as well as a hygiene education program.

Hue Schools, Sanitation & Hygiene Education Project – Vietnam. This was the first project funded by the Western Canada Section. One school in Hue Vietnam received a water well as well as a latrine and hygiene education program.