Rotary One Honduras Water Truck

 The Fremont Rotary Club is helping bring clean water to parts of Honduras as part of a World Community Service project.  Our club partnered with four other Rotary clubs in our District (Traverse City, Grand Haven, Spring Lake and Lowell) to purchase Rotary One, a vehicle for working on water projects in the mountains of Honduras. The truck is now one year old and has 18,000 miles on it, -- most of these have been accumulated over rocky terrain at 15-20 miles per hour.  The project is in collaboration with the Santa Rosa de Copan Rotary Club in Honduras.  Over the years Rotary has completed water distribution projects in 20 mountain village projects plus the well for the hospital. With an average of 100 homes in each village, it’s estimated that the clean water project is responsible for providing  water to 16,000 people, plus the 5,000 per year who are treated at the hospital. 

Nato, the Honduran project supervisor, on the left, and Rotarian Gernot Runschke on the right, take a break from checking on potential water sites in Honduras in their vehicle provided by Rotary Clubs of West Michigan.