By our OSDW reporter From 75% of students missing class to only 10%. Sickness rate at an indigenous school falls from 75% of the student body to 10% after a safe drinking water tank is installed. Where: Bahia Grande School / San Cristobal Island / Bocas del Toro archipelago / Panama Source: Principal and teacher [...]
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SEE THE WORLD’S HIGHEST WATER BILL
by our OSDW reporter It’s the bill for bad water The price is high – chronically sick children, fathers too ill to work and provide for their families, sick mothers unable to care of their kids. It includes 4,000 children a day who pay the highest price — their lives — due to bad water. [...]
EYEWITNESS — A Teacher’s Agonizing Choice.
By our OSDW reporter When we got to the school a group was talking near the school kitchen, their eyes intently fixed on something or someone down the hill. We got close to see what was going on. It turned out the group was made up of three mothers there to cook the school lunch, [...]
Back to Hidden Valley
By our OSDW reporter Three weeks after installing a rain catchment tank for the people and school at Hidden Valley we went back to see the difference it made in their lives. We took a group of young American volunteers who came to help. The jungle pressed in on both sides as the twisting channel led us [...]
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