Updates from the field

Petronila is a caretaker, and it shows. Petronila gives care and comfort to the three generations she shares her home with, to the flowers and plants that line the cobbled approach to her front [...]

Thanksgiving this year, with all the family that it brings together, came on the heels of spending time with some of our extended EOS family – those traveling from the USA with us to Nicaragua on [...]

Local ownership fosters long-term transformation! For fifteen years, EOS has been rooted in community-led development, building the capacity of local community and government to improve drinking [...]

With the familiar ‘Dinggg!’ of his cell phone, Brayan, EOS circuit rider and sensor technician in Honduras, receives an automated text message from the depths of the Florida de Marcala community [...]

With a baby on one hip and two more little ones underfoot, by any measure, Tuburus resident and mother, Marik, has her hands full. She also has her water buckets full, her rice husker full, and a [...]

Making the sacrifices. Shouldering the worry. Lifting the weak. Celebrating the successes. Providing the encouragement. Bringing the comfort. Going the extra mile. Moms – it’s what [...]

Two machete-wielding community members lead the way. Two more position themselves in the back. The route between San Andres and the community’s water source starts at the edge of the riverbank [...]

Located off-grid and off the beaten path, the Bosawás Biosphere Reserve and its remote jungle landscape is home to Miskito and Mayagna Indigenous peoples, protectors of the largest tract of [...]

EOS’ school garden program now includes one more! Students and teachers and mothers and fathers pitched in to turn the soil, to prepare the plots, and to mark many rows at Juan Lindo School [...]

There is a certain rhythm to the routine at La Independencia School (San Pablo, La Paz, Honduras). Two multi-tasking teachers deliver lessons to multiple grade-levels in few classrooms. Little [...]