Georgetown

We finished up at Georgetown yesterday and made our way to Belmopan, where we actually have decent internet. I loaded some of Dave's pictures to my computer and thought I'd share a few.

Typical stilted housing in Georgetown, a Garifuna community in the Stann Creek District of southern Belize. You drive about two miles down a dirt road from Southern Highway and pass a concrete sign welcoming you to Georgetown. Then there's about a mile of nicely paved road bracketed by houses like this.

The Roman Catholic school where we are partnering with Water Missions Belize to provide clean water and flush toilets. The water building is just visible to the right of the photo. The school serves about 120 students.

The completed water board. Right to left: 50 micron trash filter, 5 micron "Big Blue", 0.5 micron "Big Blue", UV sterilizer. Later WMI Belize will install a bucket washing and filling station to the far left.

I watch as Douglas Flores samples the treated water. Somebody had to be the guinea pig! Rich Sutton stands by, ready to fill a water bottle. Douglas and Rich both agreed that water from our system tastes better than water from their system at the technical high school a few miles away. Both use the same water source. We don't have an explanation yet.