Americas · Central America
5 projects · 5 organizations
Instead of asking families to breathe less smoke, Proyecto Mirador builds a chimney stove into the kitchen so the smoke leaves the house, and has now built more than 428,000.
A Miskito-led NGO is building solar-powered wells and storage tanks in Yamanta and Kruta, where families now drink from contaminated hand-dug pits.
A Honduran NGO builds community-run drinking water treatment plants that bring clean, piped water to towns once dependent on contaminated sources.
A community-founded patrol and restoration crew guards the reefs of Roatan and the rest of Honduras's largest marine protected area.
When forecasters see a tropical storm 3 to 5 days out, Honduran Red Cross volunteers are pre-cleared to hand out cash and 72-hour water kits before the rivers rise.