Atahualpa, Ecuador

A full team of ten volunteers arrived in Atahualpa, Ecuador, in May of 2018. This community, named after the great Inca King, tricked and murdered by the Spaniards in the 16th century, was the perfect location for a new Agua Viva Water Purification System. Our new system is already serving 500 students of husbandry; students learning how to raise guinea pigs and rabbits! Fraught with challenges and surprises, our creative volunteers overcame all odds to complete the system in record time. This new system is one of our highest systems at 12,500 feet elevation and declining blood oxygen levels were noticed the second day!