News & Happenings
PANAMA – Bocas del Toro: Quebrada Pastor School & Community Aqueduct System Project Update
WEFTA Circuit Rider José has been busy working with community work groups on the Quebrada Pastor aqueduct system in the Bocas del Toro region of Panama. The two spring sources for the system have been completely renovated providing more secure water flows. A new water...
BOLIVIA: A positive impact for 11 families of Chama Abajo
The rural community of Chama Abajo is located at over 13,000 feet above sea level, in the Bolivian Altiplano. The community members of Chama Abajo are faced with water source challenges. Their current water sources are open wells and small rivers susceptible to...
PANAMA: Bajo Algodón Water System Project Update
WEFTA volunteers, Jacob and Hanna, were on-the-ground in Panama working with the community of Bajo Algodón in April 2022 to help complete the water storage tank and transmission line connection for the water system project. After the work in the field by the...
PANAMA: Alto Mancreek Water System Renovations Project Update
WEFTA in-country partner and Circuit Rider, Nicolás, is currently working in the small community of Alto Mancreek, located in the Comarca Ngöbe-Buglé of Panama. Nicolás is finishing the final plastering of the storage tank, and the connection of the tank to the...
TANZANIA: Phase 1 of the Mpapa Water Project Begins
In collaboration with our Tanzanian in-country partners, Sanitation and Water Action (SAWA), the first phase of a multi-phase water project has begun for the Mpapa Health Centre located in the rural region of Mbinga in southwest Tanzania. The Mpapa Health Centre...
We are committed to the communities we serve.
WEFTA is committed to continuing our work with less fortunate communities in Latin America and Africa to find solutions for reliable and sustainable water and sanitation systems. In 2021, WEFTA expanded service into new regions, including Burkina Faso, Ghana, and...
NIGERIA: Water is now flowing for St. Catherine’s Hospital & Maternity Ward
St. Catherine’s Hospital & Maternity Ward now has access to clean water. Water, sanitation, and hygiene services in healthcare facilities are essential for quality care, and to help prevent illness and control the spread of infections. Over 45% of Healthcare...
PANAMA: Bajo Algodón Water Project Update
The Ngöbe-Buglé people are Panama’s largest indigenous group and poverty levels are above 70% in the indigenous areas of Panama known as comarcas. Many of these communities are scattered along the forested boundaries in undeveloped tracts of land where they live...
Global Water Crisis
Over 785 million people around the globe lack access to basic water services. Contaminated water and poor sanitation increase the risk of diseases that can result in death such as cholera, diarrhoea, dysentery, hepatitis A, typhoid and polio. According to the World...
Water & Health
Since 2002, WEFTA has been connecting donors, engineers, and communities in Latin America and Africa, all with the common goal of ensuring access to clean drinking water for everyone.
Sanitation & Environment
WEFTA engineers help facilitate community dialog leading to solutions for inadequate sewage treatment, and its environmental impacts.
Development & Sustainability
WEFTA volunteers work with the communities we partner with to develop the local skills needed to maintain and manage the water and wastewater systems constructed.
