Pansenor Water & Electricity Project

Hi all,
I have closed the campaign, “Pansenor Water & Electricity Project”. I and the Director of a Sincelejo-based NGO had worked together for alternative ways to get the water problem in Pansenor solved . He managed to get the water problem solved through the Municipality of Sampúes, and so at the moment the Zenú families count with clean running water.

The economic prospects of the families still remain weak, and so I hope to get working once again on this aspect soon.

Unfortunately, due to some new hostilities developed within the community itself we will have to redesign the project and in fact, re-assess the prospects of success in the event that we carry out an agricultural development project for the families, most likely in the form of (micro-finance). The greatest problem we face is the families’ lack of education, and thus their natural reluctance to work together for their own survival. This is not a new phenomenon and it’s clearly not their fault. To help them help themselves, we will need to pair any future effort with some educational aspect to the project. All these, with the objective of helping them understand the value of community work, and also to help them understand the importance of a collective effort to keep an agricultural micro-business running.

Certainly, we have a lot of work ahead. The current situation is hard to tackle for me, as I rely entirely on the information I get from the NGO and the locals via telephone.

While I still feel frustrated that it has become so hard to set an agricultural and crafts project, I am incredibly happy that the community has a clean water supply. This should reduce disease and will certainly benefit the youngest ones in Pansenor.

On a final note, I endlessly thank you for your unconditional support. Hopefully, we will be able to help this community very soon. I hope you hear from me briefly.

Sincerely

Felipe Cordero