23 de Enero Clean Water Project
The community of 23 de Enero is located in the Municipality of Villa Comaltitlan, in the state of Chiapas – Mexico’s poorest state. Although these communities reside on the coast, surrounded by water, potable water is increasingly scarce. Few neighborhoods have running water just a few times a week and households are forced to boil water or drink it raw and suffer the harmful, sometimes deadly effects, of waterborne diseases.
When SunRaising Foundation was approached by Healing Waters International to help provide final funding on this project, we moved very quickly.