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ry Club of St. Catharines is the International partner for global grant GG2093249 with host Trinidad, Bolivia, District 4690. Trinidad is in northeastern Bolivia, at the edge of the Amazon basin and has a population of 110,000. Rotarian Lezlie Murch was a youth exchange student there in 1973/74. While attending a project fair in February 2020 in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, she learned about this project to bring water to a small community called El Progreso. This community of 200 families lacked water for drinking, sanitation and hygiene, and citizens would have to walk 1.5kms to get water.The project was completed in 2 stages:
1. Drill and place a semi-emerging pump and at the same time construct a large collection tank of 20,000 liters of capacity,
2. To provide and insert 2" matrix pipe routing and 1" pipes for the homes.
After just 10 months, this project has been successfully completed. The Rotary Club of Trinidad and the citizens of El Progreso are extremely grateful to the Rotary Foundation and the Rotary Club of St. Catharines. This is a wonderful example of how we, as Rotarians, are able to "serve to change lives"."