Celebrating Ten Years of Working Together [] Caminos de Agua

Published September 17, 2922

This year, we at Caminos de Agua are elated to be celebrating our tenth anniversary of working in collaboration with local communities, grassroots organizations, leading research institutions from around the globe, and supporters like you – all coming together to provide access to clean drinking water for so many in our region, and well beyond, whose health and wellbeing is being increasingly threatened.

This decade of impact simply wouldn’t have been possible without the early and continuing help and commitment from an incredible network of individual givers who have made this work a reality. To celebrate this milestone, two of our closest and oldest supporters –  who were there to help Caminos get off the ground ten years ago – are taking their contribution to a new level to help launch us into our Next Ten Years of work. These sponsors, who wish to remain anonymous, are generously putting up a $25,000 dollar Match Challenge to our entire community. That means that every dollar you give will automatically be doubled – up to $25,000 dollars – through the end of October. This is by far our most ambitious match challenge to date, and we need your help to get us there. When asked why they are sponsoring this campaign, our sponsors had this to say:

We feel fortunate to have been able to help in this small way and to have had the privilege to help from the beginning. Seldom do you have the opportunity to give to an organization that uses your gift so wisely. And helps people help themselves in such an important way.

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Caminos de Agua is a community focused, data-driven, and science-oriented non-governmental organization (NGO) based in San Miguel de Allende. We drive to empower local at-risk communities to obtain adequate supplies of safe and healthy drinking water. Today, Caminos de Agua is a team of ten full- and part-time employees, plus several graduate-level engineering and public interest interns from Engineers Without Borders UK and other universities and institutions. We’re a mix of expat residents and Mexicans, technologists and community organizers, researchers and educators, united by our concern for public health and welfare. Caminos de Agua is organized as a registered nonprofit in both the U.S. and Mexico. At Caminos de Agua, we believe that access to safe, healthy drinking water should be a fundamental human right. We help communities at risk confront challenges of water quality and scarcity through:

1. Water monitoring 2. Education 3. Community-led solutions 4. Research and development 5. Activism