The Gypsies Projects
Ecuador – Clean Water
For the indigenous communities of Ecuador’s mountainous Chimborazo province, life is defined by extreme poverty, lack of education and healthcare, and the challenge of farming on rough, rocky terrain.
Every day, villagers are forced to walk long distances to access a source of clean water. The scarcity of clean water combined with a lack of hygiene education often leads to bacterial sickness, preventing children from attending school and adults from working.
Free The Children’s Adopt a Village projects in Ecuador are working to change lives through clean water projects. From building ground pipes to bringing clean water closer to homes, to constructing hand-washing stations and bathrooms next to schools, to giving community workshops on hygiene and sanitation, Free The Children is helping provide a better future for the people of rural Ecuador.
If you choose Chimborazo as our next destination, the Modern Gypsies will travel to this impoverished community to get a better understanding of the barriers they have to overcome in order to gain access to clean water. We will experience firsthand the challenges around gathering water during a “water walk”, a family’s daily struggle to collect water, tour the community and meet with residents to understand local water issues, and get our hands dirty as we help with the construction of life-changing latrines and kitchens.
Great idea thank you.
I would love to help you as a volunteer. Is this possible?
Not currently set up for that, but hoping to soon be.
I am a school principal from Canada who is originally from Ecuador. I would love to help out in your next adventure and maybe have our school do a fund raiser for you once you decide where your next adventure will be. I watched you on t.v. and I am glad you won!
Congratulations on using your new found fame to the service of humanity!!
Miriam Moran,
Principal- Holy Family School,
Calgary, Alberta – Canada
This is a great idea guys. I have property in Ecuador and have travelled throughout Ecuador on several adventures. My father retired in south Ecuador and tried to help change the way his local community there handled their garbage and sewage. Unfortunately, he passed away while living there two years ago.
If you decide to do this project, I would love to go with you. I know a local spanish school that donates proceeds to green causes that might be able to help us get volunteers for the project. I would really enjoy going down there, helping facilitate travel and help find you a place to stay, with a local family or at a hostel or hotel. I have lots of advice on travel in Ecuador and know plenty of people in the capital and southern Ecuador.
Please let me know if I can help you, or accompany you on this trip.
Joel Janssen
Austin, TX
I run a fundraiser through crowdrise.com and would love to help anyway I can.
I will be in Ecuador from 12th of february till the 21st. Do you have any project
going on at that time? Please let me know.
thank you, Frank Marquez