5.851 Ecuadorian children return to have water drinking.
sanitation in sixteen schools in Guayaquil.
Guayaquil, 2011-August contamination of drinking water and lack of sanitation causes numerous diseases prevention to the entire population in general and in particular the most vulnerable children. Sixteen schools in the neighborhoods of Guasmo and Trinitaria Island, in the southwest of the city of Guayaquil (Ecuador), had facilities with serious problems in the health infrastructure despite Government efforts that made more than 20 years ago. With the aim of ensuring adequate conditions of health and a healthy environment for the integral development of children, Intervida has improved the health infrastructure in the centres. The works will be finalized in 2011.
gaps in health infrastructure came from illegal water infiltrations in the system of water storage, the premature deterioration of health facilities because of the insufficient number for children in schools or by problems arising from the collapse of wells septic.
Higinio malavé Salazar Abbot school lacked a system of water storage and her suffered a deterioration in the health system structure, ceramic wall sink and collective urinal, roofs, doors and metal structure. White Goetta and Angela San Miguel schools septic well piss and accumulated water stagnant due to leakage of water in pipes, faucets and toilets. These are three examples of fifteen schools of intervention where the deficit material is being repaired.
One of the goals of the seventh Millennium development goal is to reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and to basic sanitation by 2015. Ecuador works to achieve successfully, because the percentage of people with access to improved sanitation increased from 69% to 92% in the period 1990 – 2008, according to data from the ONU.*
on Intervida
Intervida is an international NGO for cooperation to development and social awareness that act locally with communities to promote sustainable social change through the improvement of the living conditions of vulnerable populations, especially children, and influencing the causes of poverty and the inequalities.
