Reaching far beyond the communities they have served for nearly 50 years in Denver, Boulder and Longmont, Apple-wood Plumbing Heating & Electric is making sanitary bathrooms a reality for rural families in Nepal. "This is our first effort to provide assistance beyond Colorado," said Josh Ward, owner of Applewood Plumbing Heating & Electric. "Here we take having a clean, accessible bathroom for granted. In these rural areas of Nepal, many lack such facilities and we can help to change that." The special partnership with NIVAS, a local Denver nonprofit, will provide 12 families with a sanitary bathroom in the next year. The program, which assists single-mother, marginalized families with safe housing and improved living standards, uses local workers to build the secure, safe bathrooms. Access to such facilities has a dramatic effect on the overall health and safety of the family. NIVAS is a Nepalese word meaning home, which fits perfectly with the organization's mission to assist on the many housing needs in Nepal's rural areas.
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