Health Promoters

August 3rd Auga Pura para el Mundo held interviews to fill the two Health Promoter positions. The interviews were conducted by Hector Madrid, the president of the Santa Barbara Rotary Club, Maria Inestroza, the national director of APPM, Hector Pavon, the new national administrator for APPM, Nineth Mungia, the site manager for APPM Santa Barbara, and Allison O’Donnell, the Peace Corps volunteer who works with Agua Pura. In total we received 11 applications and held 7 interviews. In the end we were pleased to hire Sergio Arevalo and Mauricio Enamorado.

Mauricio Antonio Enamorado Trochez

I was born and raised in Santa Barbara and I completed my studies here as well. Upon finishing primary education I elected to continue studying Social Promotion in a three year program; the first two years included social practicums and the third included a professional practicum in another community. I began work as a Social Promoter and continued studying during the weekends to earn my title in Social Education.
I am a person that has always liked to learn new things in my life and from my work. My vocation has always been to work in a team, with groups of people of varying ages.
My work experience includes numerous community organizations ranging from the National Population Census, weighing programs carried out by the World Nutrition Program, the Coffee Fund and the National Program for Local Development.
I have also had experience working with children’s programs at various levels. I was involved with children’s enrichment programs at a local cultural center in Santa Barbara and worked as a supervisor for Youth Without Borders, an NGO that does HIV/AIDS prevention education among youth.
Working with Agua Pura allows us to educate the people we work with in hygiene and health and encourage them to incorporate the use of the filter into their lives as a solution to contaminated water. With monitoring and water testing we can observe both attitude changes as well as real improvements in family health.


Sergio Rubén Arévalo Casaña.
Sergio with an agente comunitario.
Sergio installing a filter.

I was born in San Pedro Sula and raised in Santa Barbara. I completed my primary education at Marcos Garcia de Santa Barbara, my secondary education at Instituto Departemental la Independencia and received my title in Social Promotion.
I have had substantial management experience working in the field of Social Promotion including work with Infant and Women Development, Mini Pharmacies (for people without access to health centers), agricultural development, reforestation programs and water projects. Overall I have acquired experience in organizing, socializing, planning and working with a team. Therefore I am ready to share my previous knowledge with the Agua Pura project and share in the responsibilities of the job.

Mauricio and Sergio have jumped right in and are already learning how things work at Agua Pura. Sergio has tons of experience working in the campo and is already familiar with most of the communities we are working with, so his presence eases our entry into each new community. Mauricio’s experience working as a health educator with Youth Without Borders brings creative education ideas to be used during our health and hygiene presentations.