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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →