Family Profiles

With each community we work in we try to take pictures of the whole process to have a record of what we did. While the Rotary Club members from Maine were here they suggested that we begin doing “family profiles” of a few families from each community where we install filters. In each community there are always a few individuals or families that catch our attention. Whether it be their community leadership role, their participation as a Community Agent, unsolicited kindness or just a little wackiness, there are always those who we remember most from the communities we work with.


This is Miguel Angel Rodríguez (nickname: beard) with his wife Brenda and their son Miguel. Miguel was born in San Nicolas, Santa Barbara. He received his teaching degree in San Pedro Sula where he became the director of the I.N.T.A.E. Institute. He then returned to San Nicolas, where he met Brenda, and they moved to Descansadero. He currently owns a coffee farm and is the President of the Water Board in Descansadero. His family has served as an amazing support to Agua Pura throughout our work there. Miguel has given us unconditional support in the filter project, Brenda has made a wonderful host (she probably cooked about 30 ears of corn for the Maine Rotary group) and their son is very entertaining (he found a fast friend in George).