TOTAL DURATION: 16'25''

01.00.00.00 IFAD SPOT 30''

GUATEMALA (FILMED JANUARY 2001)

IFAD PROJECT: Cuchumatanes Highlands Rural Development Project

The Cuchumatanes Highlands is an isolated mountainous area located in the northwestern part of Guatemala. The population here is of Mayan ancestry and more than half live in extreme poverty. Most of the population are small farmers with less than 3.5 ha in land holdings.

01.00.40.07 Exterior project office Cuchumatanes
01.01.06.22 Interior project office, various of meeting
01.01.34.08 WS landscape, pan across hills, Family walks down track
01.02.56.19 Various family with water pots and women washing clothes
01.03.49.17 Family with children
01.04.21.17 Families harvesting potatoes
01.06.00.04 Exterior house and potato store
Ricarda Velazquez lives with her husband and five children in their one room house. It serves as kitchen, living room, bedroom, dining room and storeroom. She rises at four every morning to light the fire and prepare tortillas for breakfast. Her day goes quickly, there is water and firewood to collect, fields to be cultivated and for the children, the sheep to take out to pasture. For dinner it's tortillas again, but with potatoes.

01.07.41.04 Inside Ricarda's house
01.08.37.23 Exterior house, family walk along road
01.08.53.12 Little boy looks at house and various family outside house
01.09.18.03 Interior house women making tortillas and cooking over open fire
01.10.23.15 Family working on land
01.10.59.22 Shepherds round up sheep
01.11.15.24 Exterior cooperative building
01.11.19.21 Sheep herded into shelter and various sheep inside
01.12.00.07 Guatemala ENDS

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ECUADOR (FILMED 2001)

IFAD PROJECT:Upper Basin of the Cañar River Rural Development Project

One quarter of the world's population still does not have access to a clean, safe water supply. IFAD, The International Fund for Agricultural Development, a specialised United Nations agency supports rural development projects and in Ecuador, the Fund worked with the people on the design of a water supply system. The villagers themselves manage and maintain the system, whose effectiveness is now well proven. This project demonstrates that people's participation is key to success

The village of Cachi lies on a geological fault line, and the earth's movements often cracked the underground pipes. Repairs were time-consuming and expensive.
The villagers put their heads together and with the help of the International Fund for Agricultural Development, IFAD, they came up with an unusual idea.

01.12.24.14 Cachi, Ecuador, general views
01.12.31.19 Various villagers in Cachi
01.12.34.14 ZO from valley
01.12.41.10 Various pipes
01.12.51.23 Villagers walk up hill and sit
01.13.03.20 Interview Remigo Padron, Proyecto cuenca Alto Del rio Canyar (Spanish)

''We couldn't build a reservoir because the Indian community was against it. Since it was an archaeological site, they believe strongly in their culture and they respect it.

It was the villagers who passed pipes through the trees to their homes but they asked us to help them with improvements. So we assisted by developing a system.''

The system worked far better than the traditional underground method, but IFAD experts improved on it by experimenting with valves and springs to cope with the fluctuating flow of water.
The water supply comes from an underground spring and is piped into a tank where it gets treated with chlorine daily. Gravity takes it down the pipes to the village below.

01.13.43.07 Various villagers work, pipes/tubes/springs
Luz Maria was voted secretary for the drinking water project. She lives with her family in the village.

01.14.38.07 Luz Maria Guaman in Spanish
''Thanks to this project our lives have changed enormously. Before the community didn't have access to safe drinking water. It was hard work and it took a long time to go and collect water. But now we have safe drinking water piped directly to our homes.''

01.14.49.01 Luz Maria washes clothes
01.14.57.10 Women takes glass of water from tap
01.15.03.03 Little girl open shower
01.15.46.08 Exterior and interior water cistern

Manuel Guaman takes monthly meter readings, and each household pays according to the amount of water used.

01.15.57.13 Manuel takes meter readings
01.16.11.14 children dance
01.16.25.11 Ends Ecuador