Monday, June 18, 2007

The Coloradoan - www.coloradoan.com - Nonprofits offer help to Peru villages

The Coloradoan - www.coloradoan.com - Ft. Collins, CO.: "Nonprofits offer help to Peru villages
BY JULIETTE FARDULIS
JulietteF@coloradoan.com

Locally-based, nonprofit organizations Village Earth and Engineers Without Borders-Fort Collins Professional Chapter have joined forces to bring clean water to an indigenous community in the Peruvian Amazon.

The region to receive help is home to the Shipibo-Conibo people of Santa Rosa de Dinamarca along the Rio Ucayali in Peru.The nonprofits will be traveling to the remote upper Ucayali region of the Amazon Basin later this week to begin assessing the community's water situation, as well as beginning boundary surveys to assist in demarcating indigenous territory in hopes of protecting large swaths of rainforest."

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