Wheeler Machinery Volunteers Help Eradicate Poverty in Small Mexican Village
Salt Lake City’s Wheeler Machinery Co. is partnering with CHOICE Humanitarian to help eradicate extreme poverty in Mexico. Fourteen Wheeler Machinery Co. employees journeyed this spring to the small mountain village of Tixmadeje in Mexico’s Acambay region. Located 9,200 ft high, the village is in a remote location with little access to modern amenities.
While in Tixmadeje, Wheeler employees and villagers worked side-by-side building cisterns for four village families. Cisterns are cylinder-shaped waterproof receptacles for harvesting rain water and protecting it from contamination. Employees and villagers laid the foundations, bent and tied the wire and mixed cement to construct the cisterns.