by manoamano | Mar 3, 2022 | Blog
2021 was the year of focus on water projects for our Bolivian counterpart organization Mano a Mano Nuevo Mundo. In spite of the pandemic, political unrest, and the perennial challenges present in the rural areas where we work, Nuevo Mundo completed two major Laguna...
by manoamano | Dec 2, 2021 | Blog
Mano a Mano’s expansion of the Laguna Sulti water reservoir is now complete! The rain recently arrived and filled the reservoir. One rain and the reservoir is about to overflow by the large overflow opening. Area farmers are excited, happy to see so much water....
by manoamano | Nov 17, 2021 | Blog
During the summer of 2021, Mano a Mano initiated a set of integrated projects in the municipality of Punata, which includes two water projects: the 3rd expansion of the Laguna Sulti Reservoir, and drilling a well in the community of Chirusi Rosario. Our Bolivian...
by manoamano | Aug 24, 2021 | Blog
In 2005 a Bolivian subsistence farmer in whose community Mano a Mano had built a school made this plea along with his neighbors. “Our plants produce little or die of thirst. A reservoir would hold enough rain so all of us could irrigate our fields. Then we would have...
by manoamano | Jul 6, 2021 | Blog
Built in 2007 on relatively flat land in the Cochabamba Valley, Mano a Mano’s reservoir in Laguna Sulti lends itself to expansion when the number of area farm families grows and need for water increases. St. Paul Rotary and Rotary International helped fund this...