Municipality: Uncía-Norte of Potosí

Country: Bolivia

Mom th’ajlla, original story of a leader:

“Within the project Uncía, visited the house of Mom Maria Th'ajlla Javier, who is a senior leader of the commonwealth of Toluyo, and a user of SODIS, as well as community President RESERCA, and supported with sufficient authority kallpachaq and technicians to decomposition of the municipality in the dissemination of the options for water disinfection and hygiene in the community”.

“In Huacuta School, Professor Paulino Anavi, reports that with their students build the rafts with recyclable cans of alcohol. Each student and student builds his own hits and do a single measure, to take a punt per child and thus be able to use for hand washing and toilet”.

Community: Huacuta

Municipality of Uncía - Norte of Potosí - Bolivia

Photo.Children's school Huacuta washing their hands in self-constructed raft
Project: Water disinfection options at home

SODIS users phrases:

During the families’ follow-up, facilitators promote SODIS household practices in communities. In this way the project provided backpacks, where they can easily carry your bottles during follow-up visits.

....I visit families once each month, I visit12 families. We are two promoters, the other half is visited by my partner...
(Promotor Juan Paraca)

Municipality of Chayanta - Nort of Potosí - Bolivia

Comunity: Lozareta

Project: Household Water Disinfection Options PDA CHAYANTAKA

SODIS User Phrases:

“…We all drink SODIS, now children do not contract diarrhea and are no longer sick”
 ( Ms. Juana, Comunity Queñuani, Ayllu Chayantaka)

“...Now we get used to and we like to consume water SODIS”
 (Ms. Virginia, Comunity Queñuani)

“..Children do SODIS at school and furthermore my son does it at home...”
(Ms. Marcelina, Comunity Queñuani)

Children have become leaders in certain kinds of consumption of safe water and hand washing at school and in your home. When some parents talked about "our children have taught us to arrange the bottles in the sun for SODIS and have taught us to make home pools for the whole family to wash their hands"...