At the beginning of this month, we received a group from the South Granville Rotary Club for their fourth consecutive education project here in San Ramón. The Club financed the construction of a computer lab in a rural high school, as well as improvements to the existing buildings, a water system with toilets and a… Read More →
San Martin Water Project: An Update
Finally! We are very happy to have some news to report about the water project in San Martin. To be honest, I have been putting off writing this blog post. While we have been working with the community leaders and City Hall to form a Community Water Committee that will be in charge of maintaining… Read More →
A San Ramónian in the States: A Visit from our former Tourism Coordinator, Larry Gomez
Our founder, Lonna Harkrader, shares about a visit from Larry Gomez, our former Tourism Coordinator, to North Carolina recently. If you went on an ecotour in the past 7 years, you were guided around by Larry Gomez, our young and vibrant Tourism Coordinator. He impressed our visitors with his ability to solve any problem and… Read More →
San Martín Water Project Part 1: Obtaining the Source
For those of you just tuning in, we held a fundraiser in May to build a water system in the rural community of San Martín, located in the coffee-producing zone of San Ramón. This system is intended to provide water for 86 families that were given land titles as part of a government settlement program…. Read More →
Why We’re Choosing to Build a Water Project in San Martín
Beginning in 2015, we began to notice that when we talked to community leaders in the rural areas of San Ramón, the conversation kept going back to one topic: water and sanitation. As one community leader told me, “You can live your whole life without electricity or without going to school, but you can’t go… Read More →
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