The Rotary Club of Toledo has helped supply clean drinking water to a neighborhood in northern Honduras for years, but five club members were able to see the true impact when they traveled there recently as part of a conference for Central American Rotary clubs.
Through a longstanding partnership with the Rotary Club of Ursula, the Toledo chapter has been able to assist communities in the Sula Valley with infrastructure projects, the latest of which was helping residents of El Gallito obtain access to clean water, said Kevin Mullan, the local club’s president-elect.
The annual conference was held in San Pedro Sula, not far from El Gallito, where Toledo Rotary had begun efforts to improve the local community’s infrastructure in 2012.
Before the Rotary clubs’ intervention, the community obtained all of its water through rainwater cisterns made of eavestroughs, a plastic bucket turned into a funnel, and steel receptacles.
“And that’s what they’re using to cook with, it’s what they’re using to clean clothes with, it’s what they’re using to drink,” Mr. Mullan said.