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Amazon Water Sanitation and Hygiene Project
Chelsie Romulo, Spring 2015
Six Environmental Science and Policy (ESP) students are part of an incredible group at George Mason University called the Amazon Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WaSH) Project.. This year, our team will spend two weeks in the Maijuna communities of Nueva Vida and Puerto Huamán to build water filters and conduct sanitation and hygiene workshops in each household.
Amazon Water Sanitation and Hygiene Project
NewsBeat Social April 10, 2015
Volunteers from George Mason University have collaborated to create the Amazon Water Sanitation and Hygiene Project aimed at providing clean drinking water to the indigenous Maijuna group in the Peruvian Amazon.
Amazon WaSH Biosand Filters Explained
Gabe Stonebraker March 27, 2015
Gabe Stonebraker, one of the founding members of the Amazon WaSH Project, explains how biosand filters work in less than 90 seconds.
Amazon WaSH Project to Start Funding Campaign for 2015 Peru Trip
Keosha Quigley March 2, 2015
Members of the Amazon WaSH Project are preparing for their fourth summer trip to the Peruvian Amazon to work with the Maijuna indigenous group. They will be building water filters for 45 families, which will help improve the lives of 200 Maijuna people. They are seeking to raise $18,500 by the March 31 deadline.
Mason Team Helps Maijuna with Clean Water Project in the Peruvian Amazon
Leslie Temple and Laurence Benson January 27, 2014
In May 2013, an interdisciplinary group of nine members of the George Mason University community traveled deep into the Amazon rainforest to continue their work with the Maijuna indigenous village of Sucusari, a remote and heavily forested area in the northeastern Peruvian Amazon.
Clean Water... In the Amazon!
Gabe Stonebraker January 23, 2014
In 2012, I became heavily involved with an organization at George Mason University called Engineers for International Development (EfID). The organization’s goal is to use its students’ abilities to improve small communities’ quality of life in developing countries. By supplying knowledge on the ground, communities are able to set up reliable infrastructure systems that support their basic physiological needs. Much of the time, this involves setting up fresh water supply systems.
Achieving Clean Water in the Amazon
Gabe Stonebraker September 16, 2013
In June 2012, a group of George Mason University (GMU) students and faculty traveled to the Amazon jungle to help an indigenous group of roughly 400 people called the Maijuna complete a water, sanitation and hygiene (WaSH) project. The project included teaching proper toothbrushing, hygiene and handwashing, and building bio-slowsand filters (biosand filters) for each household.
Pure Water for Peru
Gabe Stonebraker January 8, 2013
A group of 400 native Peruvian Amazonians known as the Maijuna desperately searched for answers to help reduce their high child mortality rate when it became clear that their drinking water was one of the major culprits. Once nomadic in nature, the Maijuna have, since the beginning of the 20th century, become a settler society that has congregated into four communities along four different rivers.