This woman in Montañuela, Honduras, is collecting water for her family in the midst of the dry season, which runs from November to April. During this period, natural water sources often run dry and rural inhabitants, who comprise about 40% of the population, must purchase water or depend on wells provided by outside entities.
Texas Water Mission has been helping rural residents access safe drinking water since 2003, primarily though the drilling and maintenance of wells, along with and health and hygiene education for communities. We began in Honduras, and added the Navajo Nation, which is in the midst of a 30-year drought, in 2019.
TWO UPCOMING EVENTS
#1) TWM’s annual World Water Day celebration is March 11 at Confluence Park, offered as a part of Creative Confluence, a festival of nature, art, music and more www.celebrationcircle.org/festival. Come out and join the fun and learn about World Water Day. Sign up for TWM’s annual Run4Water and run or walk along the river with us on March 11. You can register and pick up a t-shirt at our table. We are partnering with River Aid San Antonio, the River Authority and Foundation to provide bags and gloves for plogging (picking up trash while jogging!) as you make your way down the river.
The race can be run or walked anytime in any location from March 11th to the 22nd, which is World Water Day. When registering you will be given information on the RaceJoy App, which will time your race and give you encouragement along the way!
This is the festival we will participate in and you can run from here.
#2) You are invited to join TWM’s annual trip to Honduras May 1-6 to visit our partners and projects, enjoy scenic towns and local coffee, and participate in volunteer activities around the drilling of a new well. We will fly into the new airport at Comayagua (which replaced the one at Tegucigalpa) on Monday, May 1, be picked up by our well maintenance lead, Louis Fernando Zuniga, and get settled in our rooms at the Kellogg Conference Center within Zamorano University.
From the spacious grounds of the university, we will head out daily to become familiar with our partners, community projects, and the region where we work. The trip will provide a balance of community engagement and volunteer work with time to explore the university, visit picturesque locations, and learn more about the water situation in Honduras. Translation will be provided as needed by Linda Stone and volunteer Roxana Menes. The return flight leaves Comayagua International (also called Palmerola) on Saturday afternoon, May 6. See below for selected photos from last year’s trip. Please contact Linda Stone for more information at 210-275-0575 or linda.stone@texaswatermission.org.
