The Returned Peace Corps Volunteers/Madison (RPCV) has given us a $1000 grant towards basic infrastructure in a new community. Our facilitator, Alma Susan Chavez, completed a survey of the needs of the seventeen communities in the Chacocente Wildlife Refuge and its buffer zone. As a result of her research, the SCP board has chosen La Chota as the new community for project collaboration.

Among La Chota’s requests are seven family wells, fourteen latrines, and a well or water source for their beautiful new school, built with funds from Denmark. We are investigating the possibility of piping water from a spring about a kilometer away from the school site. This well-organized community is familiar to SCP travelers as the starting point for our hikes to the other Chacocente villages.