PROMOTING ACCESS TO CLEAN WATER

During an 8th grade school field trip to Subic Bay, Zambales, we got the opportunity to stay with the Ambala Aeta Community to learn more about their unique culture and traditions. Throughout our visit, we formed strong connections with local students from the Pastolan Aeta Community Elementary School and learned more about their community through interactions with the tribe leaders. We came to learn about their community's limited access to clean water and how one family had to gave up their share of the water supply for every day of our visit. Several years later, we continued to reflect back on our experience with the Aetas and the issue of clean water access in the Philippines. In June 2020, we decided to start FilterAgua in hopes of doing what we can to give back to our community.