WHAT DO YOU SAY TO A HUNGRY CHILD? Our long-term goal is to provide safe drinking water to indigenous schools and villages which often have only polluted water. We catch, store and share the same rainfall that creates poluted puddles many drink from This helps stop the “revolving door” sickness that weakens so many indigenous [...]
Archive | October, 2009
Heavy rains last night – all water tanks refill.
We catch, store and share safe water for indigenous peoples, in place of the polluted water from puddles or contaminated streams which is often all they have to drink. Our simple, easy to maintain tanks have only one moving part – the faucet – and last for years. They’re a perfect answer for providing safe [...]
HUNGER STALKS THE ISLANDS
More signs of malnutrition appearing. Maribel Gomez, child relief worker asks, “WHAT DO YOU SAY TO A HUNGRY CHILD?” By Joe and Maribel Bass The Quaymi population is never far from hunger, with food shortages a way of life. But signs of outright malnutrition are appearing more frequently. Benjamin , 6, showed up in a [...]
PROJECT ‘LONG REACH’ UNDERWAY
Our goal is safe drinking water for all indigenous schools. “Schools should be a center for learning, not a center for spreading disease from polluted drinking water.” By Joe Bass Project LONG REACH installs safe drinking water rain-catchment tanks on the distant Peninsula Valiente. Out beyond the most distant islands; out beyond the barrier reefs [...]
