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2003 Grants

Centro de Desarrollo Integral Campesino de la Mixteca (CEDICAM) is an organization working in the mountainous regions of Oaxaca, Mexico. The region receives an annual rainfall of only 30-40 centimeters and has some of the most eroded lands in the Americas. Pangea funded two projects with CEDICAM, which are now complete. One collected rainwater during the rainy season and stored it in cisterns for use by the community school and individual households.  The second built contour ditches on hillsides above threatened springs and shallow wells to recharge the aquifers which feed these drinking water sources. The community has already seen seen results from both projects. Agua Para La Vida worked with the community of San Isidro, a village of poor subsistence farmers northeast of Rio Blanco in Nicaragua. San Isidro, like other villages in the region, had no local access to uncontaminated water. Women had to travel long distances to carry small quantities of water for their families. Aqua Para La Vida and the community built a gravity driven drinking water system that delivers safe water to the far-flung houses that make up the community. El Porvenir built a similar water system in the village of Bijagua, Nicaragua. The project built a concrete lid for the nearest uncontaminated source to protect the source from contamination, and constructed a gravity-flow system that pipes water to individual household taps in 50 homes and 3 public taps in the center of town.

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