Volunteers from OSDW and Peace Corps team up to make a difference.
By an OSDW reporter
Polluted water is a tragedy for poor indigenous families.
Children get worms, which leads to anemia, dysentery and malnutrition, which causes absenteeism from school, or even dropping out — which, in turn, perpetuates the cycle of poverty and hunger they’re trapped in.
Their children may become one of 4,000 children who die each day from bad water.
Medical treatment doesn’t work if children have to go back to drinking bad water, which is often all they have.
Recycling rainwater is the answer.
– The question that launched Operation Safe Drinking Water –
Why should children have their lives cut short due to bad drinking water where it rains a lot?
Look at the story of just one indigenous school – Buena Esperanza on an island in Panama. OSDW teamed up with Michelle Aguilar, a US PeaceCorps volunteer there, to bring safe drinking waterto kids there.
Ken of OSDW and Michelle of the Peace Corps find teamwork gets the job done. Indigenous kids will now have safe drinking water.
Michelle later wrote:
“Thank you again for the time and supplies you donated to the school at Buena Esperanza so the kids can have clean drinking water.”
The tank has arrived at a distant island-school. Volunteers carry it up the hill to the school, where it will mean safe water for kids. Our tanks are simple, easy to maintain, last for years ...and refill every time it rains.
This is a call for more volunteers: to come and help; to donate; to buy a rain-catchment tank so the most vulnerable children can get well – and stay well..
Rain-catchment tanks loaded and ready to be taken to schools in need of safe water.
Could you get by without safe drinking water?
No. None of us could.
Neither can indigenous children.
A rain-catchment tank you help provide could make the difference.
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