The Philippines

Sewahon Elementary School

Sewahon Elementary School

Got-Agua? sent emergency food and water to Sitio Tuyuman in the wake of Typhoon Odette.

In 2021, 6 water pumps were provided in 6 brgy in Himamaylan City, Negros Occidental, Philippines.

In Sitio Palanan, Barangay Halang, Got Agua? worked with Barangay Captain Eulogio L. Precilla and members of his staff to install a piping system connecting two wells that were otherwise cut off to the community during the rainy season.

Working with Cong. Roberto Puno (Antipolo) and Muntindilaw Antipolo Barangay Captain Merlita Molina, Got Agua? rehabilitated five drinking water wells that serve more than 1,500 residents of Muntindilaw. Many of the rehabilitated wells had been inoperable for more than a year.

Super Typhoon Haiyan, known as Typhoon Yolanda in the Philippines, devastated large areas of the central Philippines, in early November 2013. It is the deadliest Philippine typhoon on record, killing at least 6,100 people and injuring almost 30,000 people. Haiyan is also the strongest storm recorded at landfall, and unofficially the strongest typhoon ever recorded in terms of wind speed.

Nationwide, one out of ten Filipinos – almost 10 million people - lack access to basic water. In some regions of the country, almost forty-percent of Filipinos lack such access. These numbers were released in July by the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF in the report, titled “Progress on Drinking Water, Sanitation and Hygiene: 2017 Update and Sustainable Development Goal Baselines.”

Got Agua?, an international water charity, recently broke ground on its first project in the province of Aklan. Although this is not the first of its kind in the Philippines, this is the pioneering project partnership between Got Agua? and Habitat for Humanity, a relationship spearheaded by Got Agua? President Rocco Puno. “The two international organizations share a common mission in uplifting the lives of Filipinos – there are plenty of synergies in working together, and we hope this is the first of many projects”, he said.

Got Agua? Trustees Lauren Hickey, Raya Isabel Puno, Rocio Puno, Samantha Abello, Madeleine Myronowicz, Matthew Myronowicz and a team of Got Agua? volunteers from the United States and the Philippines traveled to three barangays in Buenavista, Guimaras.