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Santa María de Fátima is reached starting from Iquitos, along the Itaya and Amazon Rivers, after a 50-minute trip. It is a community with 554 residents grouped in 68 homes.
Residents well identified with the work of Rotary, since in 2022 the safe water treatment plant was inaugurated, which is managed by a dynamic Administration Committee, made up
of the residents themselves.
Now it has healthy water, but it is important to complement the project with sanitation service, through the construction of basic hygienic services.
Currently they go to the middle of the jungle to carry out their physiological needs or build silos with branches and plastic and by using these precarious services, they become infected with infectious diseases or risk being bitten by vipers or other animals.
After the intervention of Rotary, the project will be linked to the Safe Water project that already operates independently and supervised by the same Administration Committee, who will
monitor the correct use of the Basic Sanitation Units (UBS); and ensuring that residents are using it correctly, with a unit of measurement being the decrease in cases of stomach
infections presented at the Cabo Pantoja and Sinchicuy Health Post.
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