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 →

A lot of jokes, memes, and gifs are floating around right now about how much we all want 2020 to end, and it does feel like 2021 is a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel. But if we’ve gained anything from the experiences of this year, it is perspective. It seems as… Read More →

When our new fiscal year began in July of this year, we hit the ground running. Here’s a quick review of what we’ve done since then: We’ve provided materials for 34 latrines for rural families in two communities of San Ramón. Since we started our sanitation project with the rural women’s group UMOYS in 2017, that… Read More →

Our founder, Lonna Harkrader, writes about how San Ramón re-built its water system, and also how the community of Las Delicias came to have electricity. In 2002, the mayor asked SCSRN to help build a new water system for the urban area of San Ramón. During the rainy season, the water was dirty, and during… Read More →