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HOTC Pilot Project
HOTC's multicultural five-year indigenous health pilot project (Dec 2003 - Dec 2008) focused on the native community of Saint Rose of Huacaria in the Manu Rain Forest in the southeastern Peruvian Amazon. Our goal in Huacaria was improved health and well being of children and families while respecting their cultural and environmental needs. This was done through integral community based health programming applied gradually over 5 years consisting of low technology methods of safe drinking water systems, proper sanitation, multilingual health and hygiene education, and secondary and university education. Our programs were partnered with the local medical post, regional health and education ministries, and Peruvian social service agencies to strengthen the existing infrastructure and to promote real and sustainable health advances among the people. All programs were documented by medical and anthropological studies that monitored the improved health and social impact upon the community. The children and community were the key players in the direction of their health and well being, and actively participated in all aspects of development and implementation. Village and youth based water and technical committees were formed to maintain the health infrastructure and also to promote long term sustainability. Our integral indigenous health project was a first of its kind to be piloted in a native community in the southeastern Peruvian Amazon. The advances achieved by the people MONUMENTAL in their history in Manu. This pilot project will now be replicated in the Manu Rain Forest and surrounding region, as well as serve as a multicultural global model to promote the preservation of tropical forest ecosystems and the health and cultural integrity of indigenous peoples in the Amazon and through-out the world. "Water is essential to all LIFE" |
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 Intro Water Sanitation Health & Hygiene Education HOTC Pilot Project Programs & Services |
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