Valley of Peace and Light of the Valley

Before leaving the hotel, we tried to shower but the water system in the city was messed up.  No clue what happened, but there was a trickle in the bathroom sink as well as in the bathtub.  Not feeling especially clean and fresh, we had a quick breakfast and met our  guides from Pathlight, an organization which exists to help students to attend high school (it is not free, here).  At the end of the day, we were given a tour of their office where students whom they mentor and subsidize were working on homework via computers which they do not have at home.

The plan was to go first to the school in Valley of Peace.  After driving about 30 minutes, we arrived at the Assembly of God Valley of Peace school where we met Jesus Catzim, the brand new principal .  He was very courteous, listened to our proposal and told us that he had no information about the community because he was so new to the area.    We thanked him for his time and interest and after taking water samples, and looking at a possible place for an installation.

resorvior for Valley of Peace water

We turned around and traveled back thru Belmopan going the other direction heading to Light of the Valley community (school and Baptist church)

We met with the Principal and Vice Principal for awhile.  Our Pathlight guide had met here before about Living Waters and we were treated very courteously.  We took a tour of a possible installation site and saw where the water came into the campus.

The room we could use as a filtration site.

 I took water samples for testing and we left the administrators with my contact information.  I felt really good about this site.

water faucet between buildings- white doors are bathrooms

I took one minute videos of the rooms at each site, which I can share with whomever wants to see them.


A week after we visited there, I wrote each principal, thanking them for their hospitality, wishing them a good school year and asking if they had had an opportunity to talk to community members about our proposal.  I received responses from each one and felt encouraged about the possibilities ahead.

Thanks for an interesting trip, Kelly, Ken, Greg, Cathy, Bo, Doug and Laura!