Bobby Wood: what clean water changes
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[0:00] My name's Bobby Wood and I'm here on Isla Bastimentos in Panama.

[0:04] So the tribe of Indians here is the Nobe, the Nobe Bugle, and they typically live in huts

[0:11] that are elevated with thatch roofs and in pretty simple conditions.

[0:17] Many of them live in mangrove mud and they don't have access to clean water typically

[0:21] and so they do a lot of drinking at the creek.

[0:24] And so one of the things that we've been trying really hard is to work with them

[0:27] explaining why they have vomiting and diarrhea chronically and a lot of that

[0:32] comes from drinking unsafe water and also bringing them other sources of

[0:36] clean water through wells through rainwater collection and and we're so

[0:41] blessed to have this team here with us a lift in his team from Washington State

[0:46] really working with a lot of the communities here to bring about rain

[0:50] water collection and drilling wells for them so we're now seeing with with

[0:54] this latest team, being able to reach villages that we could have never done on our own because

[0:59] there are so many resources and a plan and also the ability to teach the local people.

[1:05] What helps in that department is the fact that they're getting involved now.

[1:09] They're helping their neighbor.

[1:10] We're seeing the excitement.

[1:12] When you have a whole community that's lived with chronic diarrhea and vomiting and then

[1:19] When you come in with a team, and the team provides all of this information, not only

[1:24] information about resources and materials, in order to make it happen so that these people

[1:28] can now have clean water.