August brought the focused, unglamorous work that follows a breakthrough — and September is shaping up to be decisive! In Las Mercedes KM11, JASS recognition is one mayoral signature away from making the community the legal owner of its own water system. In Las Mercedes, a high-stakes legal meeting will determine the land rights path forward. In Totoral Bajo, full CAD maps of all six community sectors are in hand. Ricardo heads to Piura in the first week of September to push all three forward — and right now, every dollar given through our North Texas Giving Day campaign is matched! Read the full update.

July was VAVV's most significant month yet. Our largest mission team ever — 28 missionaries including eight engineers — broke ground on the Las Mercedes KM11 clean water system, advanced engineering design on two more active projects, delivered 1,200 care packages, and ran two full WASH + TOB education workshops across two communities. Then many continued into a pilgrimage that took them to the places Pope Leo XIV walked before his papacy. Read the full update.

June delivered the last major engineering milestone before construction begins in Las Mercedes KM11 — and the groundbreaking is now set for the fourth week of July, with VAVV missionaries on the ground. Meanwhile, Las Mercedes held its formal design kickoff for the community groundwater well, and Totoral Bajo kept laying the foundation for its future river-based system. The mission is moving. Read the full update.

May brought a landmark moment for Las Mercedes KM11 — an official government recognition that marks the community as the rightful steward of their own water future — alongside a sustainable aquifer in Las Mercedes, persistent land-rights advocacy in La Merced, and continued groundwork in Totoral Bajo. Across all four active projects in rural Peru, the mission moved forward with purpose. Read the full update.

April brought meaningful progress across VAVV’s four active clean water projects in rural Peru, from construction coordination in Las Mercedes KM11, to gearing up for pump testing in Las Mercedes, continued land-rights advocacy in La Merced, and ongoing data collection in Totoral Bajo. Each step is moving these communities closer to sustainable, community-owned clean water systems.