by Our OSDW Reporter Go with us to a cut-off and rarely-visited group of indigenous people in desperate need of safe drinking water. “You can’t get there from here,” we were told. And that was true, by land. Access is only by a long and risky open boat trip on the open ocean. You load [...]
Archive | February, 2010
WHERE ON EARTH IS TIGER ISLAND — AND WHY IS IT SO HARD TO GET THERE?
By our OSDW reporter Those are the questions we asked when we heard about Tiger Island and the indigenous people living there. We were told their school urgently needed safe drinking water, so we needed to go. We poured over charts of the Bocas Archipelago off the coast of Panama and found it was on [...]
Volunteer med team treats hundreds of indigenous villagers
By our OSDW reporter Safe water prevents disease. But what do you do when people are already sick from polluted water? 80% of all disease in developing countries is from contaminated water, according to a UN report. Most indigenous children have worms from bad drinking water. Worms cause anemia, dysentery and “invisible” malnutrition – so [...]
