A southwestern Colorado nonprofit is teaching Indigenous students to build needed water systems. Justice Ramos founded Fundamental Needs, a nonprofit with a training program that helps Indigenous high schoolers build off-grid water systems for Native communities.
This initiative provides hands-on instruction for high schoolers within the nonprofit’s program. The students learn how to construct essential off-grid infrastructure to assist their communities. The reporting for this story was provided by the Colorado Sun.
Sources: Colorado Sun (nonprofit statewide newsroom)