Chacraseca Clean Water Project

       We did it!  After 11 years of hard work by the community, along with hundreds of thousands of dollars in financial support from JustHope Partners and other Solidarity Groups, “Todos, No Algunos” is a reality in Chacraseca!

EVERY SECTOR NOW HAS CLEAN DRINKING WATER… and EVERY ONE OF THE 1500 FAMILIES WHO HAS CHOSEN TO PARTICIPATE, NOW HAS A SPOUT IN OR NEAR THEIR HOME WHERE THEIR FAMILY CAN ACCESS FRESH WATER AT LEAST A FEW HOURS EACH DAY! It’s not perfect,--there are still a few glitches to be worked out-- but it’s a miracle of solidarity and hard work, that, at times, we weren’t sure was really possible.  It's a powerful testament to what stubborn hope can do

Story of the Project:

In 2000, the poor community of Chacraseca, Nicaragua had a dream -- clean drinking water for all of its 1,250 families.  They worked with the University of Leon to design the project -- cost $760,000.   After seeking grants for two years, the government of Austria offered them 250,000 euros.  So they scaled back the project significantly, and the entire community — men, women, and children — began working to make their dream a reality. They dug all the pipeline ditches & built the water storage tanks themselves. They made the grant stretch further than anyone believed possible, and by December of 2008 all but 200 families had clean, fresh water.

Due to soaring costs, the 200 families who live at the furthest edges of the 49-square-mile community could not be included in the final phase of the project. Everyone was deeply disappointed at this realization. “We are a WHOLE community,” one leader said reflectively, “todos, no algunos” (“all, not some”). So, even though they were weary after 8 long years, Chacraseca’s leaders made a commitment to try and extend the project to the outlying families. To do so, they needed $52,000 for water-line pipe to reach the 200 homes, and $25,000 to finish the third well. 

JustHope Partners and two other solidarity groups from the US joined them in their dream and worked for three years to raise the the $77,000 they needed!  THANK YOU TO:

    THE FOLLOWING JUST HOPE SOLIDARITY PARTNERS

• JustHope Board of Directors
• Church of the Beatituds, Phoenix,AZ
• Oklahoma Association of UCC Churches
• United Church of the Valley, Murrieta, CA
• Disciples Christian Church, Bartlesville, OK
• Global Missions Board, Disciples Christian Church & United Church of Christ
• Justice & Witness Ministries, United Church of Christ

     and THESE CONTRIBUTING ORGANIZATIONS:

• Amigos por Cristo, Georgia
• Students for 60,000, Newport, NY
• Trinity United Methodist Church, Tuscaloosa, AL
• Supporters from across the US, Canada, and Estonia                                   

Solidarity births miracles --Todos, no Algunos!

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