The week of February 9 a group from the Orange County Chapter of Engineers Without Borders USA came to visit El Salvador with 2 geologists and 4 engineers. They spent a week near the community of Las Delicias in San Martin helping Project Milagro. Michelle Guarde, the team leader, came to El Salvador in 2008 with a team from Terra Nova Church in Tustin California and felt motivated to get Engineers Without Boarders involved.
The team of engineers and geologists were able to offer input on the project design as well as take health surveys, soil samples, and preliminary water samples of the new well. They interviewed public school directors, the nutritional center director as well as many women in the area. They returned to the U.S. with the goal of raising the $20,000 necessary to build the final tank in the system and return to El Salvador this summer to continue working on the project.
The arrival of the group marks yet another small miracle for the people of the Las Delicias area. These small “milagros” are building off of each other to help make Project Milagro a reality and bring clean water to 10,000 people for the first time.
engineers taking soil samples
