Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

This project improves the health, education and happiness of over 200 children and staff at a rural school in Paraguay. Access to better and more sanitary facilities will reduce the risk of disease in the school and wider community. Children's learning will improve because they are less stressed and better able to concentrate in class instead of focusing on the physical discomfort of a full bladder, positively impacting on their overall development and emotional well being in the long term.

Project Message

I never really have to think about using the toilet or washing my hands. It's something I take for granted back home. These kids should be able to do the same.
- Jennifer, Fundraising Volunteer (UK), Global Infancia

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Veronica Villalba Weiler,
Resource Development Manager
Avda. Mme. Lynch 268 c/Victor Heyn
Asuncion,Asuncion Paraguay
Paraguay
(+595 21) 510 445
Email:

Organisation

Global Infancia Avda. Defensores del Chaco 268 Asuncion, Central  Paraguay +59521510445 http://www.globalinfancia.org.py/

Learn more about Global Infancia and the project team.

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Paraguay and can also be found under Children.

For more information about Paraguay, read the Human Development Report on Paraguay or the Wikipedia entry for Paraguay.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on February 15, 2012.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on November 03, 2011.

Latest Update from the Field

Toilets for children of Carapegua become a reality

By Veronica Villalba Weiler - Resource Development Manager, February 15, 2012 12:07 PM

Initial meeting

We are delighted to announce that the construction of the toilets at the school "Padres Unidos" of Cañete Cué, Carapeguá has started!  The first building materials were bought, and the ground staked out, in the middle of January.  The work is scheduled for completion by the end of February/beginning of March, before the new school term starts.  The building materials and manual labor are both being sourced locally as a means of involving the whole community in the project.

The new building has a bathroom for girls and one for boys.  The ladies’ will consist of two compartments with sinks and two toilets; and the men’s will have a sink, a urinal and a toilet.  The original architect’s plan had to be adapted so that the work could be carried out with the amount of funds raised.

The school “Padres Unidos” (Parents United) is 70 years old and is a community enterprise run by the families of Cañete Cué, Carapeguá.  Thanks to the donations received by Global Infancia from people in Paraguay, the UK (and as far away as Dubai!) we are able to give access to healthy sanitary conditions for all the 200 children at the school, and all the teaching and administrative staff, thereby improving the community’s living conditions as a whole.  Many of these children come from families that only have latrines at home, due to a lack of water supply infrastructure in the region.

Thank you once again to all the people that put their trust into Global Infancia and have helped make this project become a reality!

Ground preparation, staking out and excavation

Laying foundations

Taking measurements

Foundations ready

Septic tank

Sand arriving on site

Sand being unloaded

Lime and bricks being unloaded

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