Agua Para La Vida
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Our Mission
To help small, rural communities of Nicaragua develop and maintain access to safe drinking water.
To help these communities derive maximum benefits from safe water through higher standards of hygiene.
To preserve and protect the watersheds that provide water to these communities.
To provide training and education to local people in all aspects of designing, building, and maintaining drinking water systems so that they can achieve autonomy in rural drinking water development.
To measure the impact of safe water and hygiene education on the health of infants and children.
To develop design tools and teaching methods for use by other groups involved in village water system construction.
Our History
Agua Para La Vida is a non-governmental organization which has been helping small rural communities in Nicaragua construct their own drinking water systems since 1987. Originally a California-based group that provided technical assistance, support and volunteers working directly with the Nicaraguan communities, it now supports the development of a local team of technicians capable of taking over all aspects of the work: selection of projects, design, collaboration with and training of the beneficiaries, supervision of the construction, maintenance and hygiene education, budgeting and accounting, and ultimately the ability to secure its own funding. This indigenous organization, Sistemas Agua Para La Vida, has 12 full-time Nicaraguan staff and is officially recognized as a Nicaraguan Non-Governmental Organization.
The main resource for the training of these technicians is our work-study school, ETAP [Escuela Tecnica Agua Potable]. Its three-year curriculum encompasses all the elements required for the qualification of project directors.
Agua Para La Vida, California, entirely staffed by volunteers has a 501[c][3] Public Charity status.
A French branch of APLV was created in Fall 2002 and has the status of a Paris Association.
To help small, rural communities of Nicaragua develop and maintain access to safe drinking water.
To help these communities derive maximum benefits from safe water through higher standards of hygiene.
To preserve and protect the watersheds that provide water to these communities.
To provide training and education to local people in all aspects of designing, building, and maintaining drinking water systems so that they can achieve autonomy in rural drinking water development.
To measure the impact of safe water and hygiene education on the health of infants and children.
To develop design tools and teaching methods for use by other groups involved in village water system construction.
Our History
Agua Para La Vida is a non-governmental organization which has been helping small rural communities in Nicaragua construct their own drinking water systems since 1987. Originally a California-based group that provided technical assistance, support and volunteers working directly with the Nicaraguan communities, it now supports the development of a local team of technicians capable of taking over all aspects of the work: selection of projects, design, collaboration with and training of the beneficiaries, supervision of the construction, maintenance and hygiene education, budgeting and accounting, and ultimately the ability to secure its own funding. This indigenous organization, Sistemas Agua Para La Vida, has 12 full-time Nicaraguan staff and is officially recognized as a Nicaraguan Non-Governmental Organization.
The main resource for the training of these technicians is our work-study school, ETAP [Escuela Tecnica Agua Potable]. Its three-year curriculum encompasses all the elements required for the qualification of project directors.
Agua Para La Vida, California, entirely staffed by volunteers has a 501[c][3] Public Charity status.
A French branch of APLV was created in Fall 2002 and has the status of a Paris Association.
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