This project aimed to provide sustainable and healthy alternatives for their water (DANUM in local dialect) consumption and usage. Indigenous people, particularly the Aetas are neglected and prejudiced against when it comes to basic social care like food, water, and light. As a result, indigenous areas' social service provision remains substantially behind that of the rest of the country. Throughout the year, indigenous peoples face food scarcity. Environmental damage, destruction of forests, pollution of waters, and loss of agricultural biodiversity—is a major cause of water contamination, food insecurity, and poverty among indigenous peoples. As a result, children, women, and men contract diseases such as diarrhea, cholera, dysentery, typhoid, and polio. Moreover, a large percentage of women and children walk long distances just to obtain water for drinking and bathing. Women and children in distant places without improved water sources spend 200 million hours per day collecting water.                                                                                                                                                                                

The DANUM process begins in May and lasts through July. In partnership with my core group of boy scouts of Cagayan North Tuguegarao City Council and the organization Waves for Water Philippines, we strive to provide clean water access to the marginalized, most especially to the Aeta communities in Sta. Ana, Gattaran, and Claveria, Cagayan. The filtration facility/system of project partner Waves for Water Philippines has a high filtration rate and can catch bacteria and protozoa that cause waterborne diseases at 0.1 microns absolute. It offers a variety of uses and eliminates the need to ship bottled water. Through this, we are assisting them to develop a long-term water facility that will enable Aetas in Cagayan to meet the following goals: Reduce the number of children infected with bacteria that cause cholera, botulism, typhoid, amoebic dysentery, E. Coli, coliform bacteria, streptococcus, and salmonella by providing drinkable water to families for at least 7 years and more. Less expenditure incurred on medications and treatment and far less time spent unwell and walking just to collect water leave more work, education, care, and development opportunities.

Aside from the objectives that this project achieves, we also contributed to changing global water crisis statistics, shared with local people the importance of having access to clean water, and mobilized many policymakers, the private sector, and civil society to reflect together on the dangers that contaminated water entails, as well as solutions to protect us, the environment, and the nation. This program is dedicated to the development and empowerment of local indigenous tribes. Implementing this initiative with the help of youth volunteers who nurture processes that connect the community on a deeper level by building trust and accord through time, ensuring the strongest quality potential for a rather sustainable program. The project was successfully initiated over the course of 2 months and has given safe water service for more than 50 families of 3 different municipalities in Cagayan Province, Philippines.