Safe Water Saves Lives Projects

Pure Water for the World

After more than 24 impactful years of providing safe water, sanitation and hygiene education programs in some of the most rural and underserved communities of Haiti and Honduras, Pure Water for the World, Inc (PWW) has closed its doors.  PWW has served over 925,000 people, living in more than 750 communities, across Haiti and Central America. Through the years, PWW’s local teams have installed safe water filters, rainwater harvesting systems, bathroom facilities, WASH training programs and community water systems.
As a proud supporter of PWW since 2018, it has been an honor for the Clarke Cares Foundation to have contributed to some of these impactful programs.   Below are a few of the projects CCF has helped to fund.

CEB Francisco Morazán School Project

The 490 students and 11 teachers at the CEB Francisco Morazán School, in Danli, Honduras have inadequate and unsafe bathroom facilities and no reliable access to clean, safe water. The lack of access to these most essential WASH tools and resources impacts students’ health and ability to learn, limiting school attendance, academic outcomes, and future opportunities. 

Funds donated by the Clarke Cares Foundation and other generous donors have provided:  

• Reliable Water Access: 5,000L water storage tank to provide sufficient and reliable water access; 7 bio-sand water filters with safe water storage buckets.
• Safe Bathroom & Handwashing Facilities: In total, 8 bathrooms and 8 handwashing stations.  
• Sustainable Septic System: Renovation of existing septic system.
• WASH Supplies: Cleaning materials, paper towels, soap dispensers, soap, mirrors, sanitary pads with dispensers.
• WASH Training: Teacher training to integrate WASH concepts and practices into school curriculum
• WASH Committees: Establishment of student, parent, teacher WASH committees.
• Monitoring & Evaluation: Three year post-implementation monitoring

 Trojes Home Project

In November of 2020, in the span of just two weeks, Hurricanes Eta and Iota, ravaged through the Trojes region, causing widespread and significant destruction.  The storms caused substantial damage, tearing down hillsides, washing out roads, demolishing family homes and farmland and destroying established water and sanitation systems.

Funds from the CCF were used to install biosand water filters in all 58 homes in the village of El Onal.  In addition, PWW constructed and supervised the building of home latrines in 40 of the homes. Families also attended several educational hygiene workshops to learn about important environmental protection (including water source protection), home hygiene, personal hygiene, and safe sanitation practices.

In total, funds from Clarke Cares provided reliable, sustainable access to safe water to all 192 men, women and children and empower the community of El Onal with the essential WASH tools and knowledge to protect themselves and their environment from waterborne diseases. 

Trojes School Project

Good health and wellbeing are as essential to an education as textbooks and directly linked to a child’s success in school. Children who have reliable access to clean drinking water and safe sanitation at school and at home are protected from devastating waterborne diseases. They are able to attend school regularly and receive an education, opening doors to their future.

San Marquitos de Yamales is located in the very mountainous and remote region of Trojes, Honduras. The vast majority of homes and schools in the Trojes region have no access to a central water system or basic sanitation facilities. Open defecation, in combination with agricultural run-off, significantly contributes to contamination of the primary water resources. Diarrheal disease is endemic and a frequent cause of childhood death. 

The community of San Marquitos de Yamales has 136 people living in 30 homes. Thirty children, with one teacher, attend the local community school.  

Funding from Clarke Cares Foundation helped to provide the school with much needed tools and education, including:

• A clean water filter
• Safe sanitation facilities (gender-specific latrines and a hand-washing station)
• Piping from the water source to the school, to provide sustainable access
• Essential hygiene education
• Extensive teacher training that will support the integration of hygiene concepts into the classroom curriculum
• Menstrual hygiene education, empowering girls to safely manage their monthly menstrual cycle so that they can stay in school
• Follow-up monitoring by the PWW team