From Jerbie: In August, our staff together with the WAVES 4 WATER team went to the Barangay of Rizal. This is the community north of Hope for the Island where we rebuilt homes after waves wiped out many homes along the coast. It was almost 40 degrees and very humid. We went to Fernando village […]
Here on Siargao Island, accessing clean drinking water has always been a serious problem. During rainy season there is ample water, yet water sources are murky and full of bacteria. Villagers make feeble attempts to filter out sediment before drinking it by placing an old t-shirt over the faucet. This does nothing to eliminate harmful […]
