Angela’s only 6 … but she’s already drinking herself to death. One drop of this polluted water and she can get diarrhea, hepatitis, worms, dysentery or cholera. Rosy is already sick. Most child deaths and illnesses can be prevented by safe water from a simple rain catchment tank. Our tanks are simple, easy-to- maintain, have [...]
Archive | November, 2009
TEAM WORK DOES IT AGAIN!
Volunteers Ken of Operation Safe Drinking Water and Michelle of The Peace Corps team up to bring safe drinking water to indigenous kids. The remote indigenous school at Buena Esperanza on the Caribbean coast of Central America starts a new day today. The school now has safe drinking water for the kids and for the [...]
RAINDROPS KEEP FALLING
And those raindrops are the source of disease for many children without safe drinking water. The very rain that creates polluted puddles kids often have to drink from can be caught, stored and shared in rain-catchment tanks. What can you get from drinking polluted water? Cholera, dysentery, diarrhea, encephalitis, gastroenteritis, hepatitis, leptospirosis, poliomyelitis, salmonellosis, and [...]
Buena Esperanza School
At the Bocas Garden Club on Saturday I met the new Peace Corp volunteer from the community at Buena Esperanza. She said the school has water tanks, but no catchment or pipes and the kids do not have clean water to drink. I thought Operation Safe Drinking Water could help them and contacted Joe Bass. [...]
