Ron Rivera

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Ivania

No podía creer cuando esta mañana trataba de traducir el email de Henk….Hace 4 anos Ron contacto con nosotros, Argenol, en Zaragoza, Espana, para que enviasemos plata para una de sus nuevas fabricas. Sin comprender muy bien la finalidad, enviamos nuestro primer producto. Desde entonces nos ha llenado de orgullo dedicar esa pequena parte de la fabricacion a este proposito, agua limpia para todos!

Este ano, en el que se celebra la Exposicion Internacional sobre el Agua en Zaragoza, un Filtron ha mostrado durante los 91 días que ha durado la exposición, el proyecto de Ron. Voluntarios de la exposicion explicaban la importante finalidad: un sistema tan sencillo, economico y eficaz para potabilizar agua.

Amigo Ron, te aseguro que desde esta posicion vamos a hacer lo imposible para que se construyan esas 100 fabricas que tanto deseabas. Con esa entrañable forma de ser, esa energia y esa simpatia, has dejado amigos en todos los rincones del mundo y una ilusion contagiosa para que continuemos con tu objetivo.

Cuenta, desde donde estes, con este grupo zaragozano, orgulloso de colaborar en tu proyecto.

PAZ para ti,

Ivana

Tribute to Ron Rivera

Ron

When I first met you in 1988 in Managua you were asking me technical assistance to improve the press you needed to make “your” pot filter.

Already 20 years ago you had the vision that the combination of ceramic and silver had a huge potential to make safe drinking water affordable for people at the bottom of the pyramid.

Ever since then we have worked together, dreamed up ideas, organized funds, started up filter production in El Salvador and Ghana, brought the filter into the WHO network, solving problems of the filter production in Nicaragua, presented the filter at water fora and recently worked together in Mozambique on the new  siphon filter. We shared success but also our frustrations and discovered together; “ simple is not easy”.

It is hard to imagine how to go on without your drive, your knowledge, your friendship

Still I am sure that the best tribute we can give to you is going on with what was your goal in life; providing safe water for all.

Your friend

Henk Holtslag

Tribute para Ron Rivera

Amigo Ron

Cuando te encontré por la primera vez en 1988 me pediste asistencia técnica para mejorar la prensa para la producción de “tu”  filtro. Ya hace 20 años tu tenias la visión que la combinación de cerámica y plata tenia un potencial enorme de mejorar la calidad de agua para personas de pocos recursos.

Desde este entonces hemos trabajado juntos, sonando ideas, organizando fondos… Iniciamos  producción de filtros en Ghana y El Salvador, solucionamos problemas en la producción en Nicaragua, empujamos el filtro hasta la Organización Mundial de Salud, presentamos  el filtro en foros mundiales de agua, y hace unos meses trabajamos juntos en Mozambique en el nuevo modelo,  el filtro Siphon.  Compartimos éxitos pero también  frustraciones y juntos descubrimos “lo sencillo no es fácil”.

Es muy difícil imaginar como seguir sin tu entusiasmo, tu experiencia y tu amistad.

Sin embargo estoy seguro que la mejor forma de manifestar mi amistad es de seguir con el objetivo de tu vida: Agua segura para todos.

Fuiste un especialista de barro y agua, siendo un hombre de oro.

Tu amigo

Henk Holtslag

Ron Rivera and I met sometime early in the 90’s when I was working in Nicaragua. At the time P4P was developing the first presses for forming Ceramic water filters- I had been somewhat involved with P4P through the late Mary Chapman and Ron asked me to work with him on a couple of small projects. I went back to Canada and within a month I was back on a plane and we went to work with a women’s’ ceramic cooperative in the community of Acambaro in Guanajuato state Mexico. There Ron demonstrated his deep connection for the people that we were working with and to me he showed his exceptional organizational skills and his insight.

Over the next few years Ron and I collaborated on a number of projects. Most mornings my computer was full of e-mails from Ron and that night there would be a text message on Skype, asking me to log on. I fear that my computer will be eerily quiet after this week-and that’s when it will hit me a second time. Ron brought an incredible focus and urgency to our work. Ron felt deeply the need to provide clean water in communities that have none. His commitment came out of a strong connection to humanity.

Amongst ourselves Ron wouldn’t speak in those terms, but we felt his drive. His drive was concrete; he wanted to see more working filter factories producing filters throughout the world. He wanted to put clean water into the hands of the very communities who were most at risk. Ron was a mentor to me. He saw something in me that he felt would be useful, and he encouraged me to contribute whatever I could. I know he did the same with others. His loss hits me personally. He left us too soon. Ron was a brother and a Mensch.

-Burt Cohen-

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