Water Relief: MSF assistance in Highland Guatemala
Medicos Sin Fronteras (MSF) is working in a
number of capacities to ease the suffering of Guatemalan people. Departments
from MSF Spain, MSF Switzerland and MSF France have coordinated efforts to
provide
emergency potable water supply systems in the new village of Santa Catarina
Ixtahuacan. Fittingly, Quiche Mayan resident, Miguel Angel maintains the 
water
system that brings this critical resource to the new community. Miguel was
trained by MSF in the maintenance of the water system and the chlorination of
drinking water. In this village, perched at the peak of a mountain, there are
very few sources of clean surface water. With this gravity-fed double-well
system, MSF has eased the health and sanitation crisis faced by the new
community of 2800 people. This photo series documents the MSF assistance in
Ixtahuacan, and looks at the people who depend on the system for their basic
needs.
