Cadet Team Provides Assistance, Discovery in Honduras
June 21, 2010
By Sgt. Vincent Fusco, Dir. of Public Affairs & Communications
Bradley Potts couldn’t wait to get to work— especially since his work would consist of touring and helping the citizens of a foreign exotic land.
On May 24, Potts, a Cleveland native, five other cadets and an academy instructor arrived in Honduras, where they would spend their Advanced Individual Academic Development learning about the country and assisting Water For People.
Water For People is a nonprofit, international organization that currently works in 11 countries around the world to develop long-term solutions to water, sanitation and hygiene problems in impoverished communities.
Their main goal is to improve the quality of life by supporting the development of locally sustainable drinking water resources, sanitation facilities and hygiene education programs.
The team’s first job was to help Water for People assess the water systems in remote villages.
They performed water quality tests with chlorination and surveyed the local population on their knowledge of the systems and how they have been working.
According to his blog on the Army Strong Stories Web site, “the villagers were very friendly and generally satisfied with the water delivery system. Nearly all had a running tap just outside their front doors and a clean latrine within meters of the home.”
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