Rural Communities

Rural Communities in El Salvador Get Their Water Supply from the Sun

By Edgardo Ayala
Setting up a community water project with a solar-powered pumping system was an unlikely idea for the peasant families of a Salvadoran village who, despite their doubts, turned it into reality and now have drinking water in their homes.

Nepal’s Poor Live in the Shadow of Natural Disasters

By Naresh Newar
Barely 100 km north of Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu, the settlement of Jure, which forms part of the village of Mankha, has become a tragic example of how the country’s poorest rural communities are the first and worst victims of natural disasters.
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