With new developments in filter technology, we can now provide needy communities with long-lasting, effective water filters that can provide up to 2000 gallons of water a day… for a reasonable price.
We are very excited about this program, which will include individual projects all over the world. The need for these filters is great, and there is almost no limit to the number of wonderful new filters we can distribute as the funds become available.
Keep in mind:
- 80% of all disease is water-borne
- Lack of clean drinking water is the leading preventable cause of death worldwide
- 443 million school days are lost each year due to water-related illness
- 6.3 million children under the age of five died in 2013
As an addition to our current roster of successful programs in water and sanitation, which have included well drilling, rainwater catchment, toilet and handwashing station construction, emergency relief, reforestation efforts and more–including a good number of filter projects–as well as our acclaimed Appropriate Projects initiative, this new program will be an umbrella for our worldwide push to get these new filters into the hands of those people who desperately need them. It will include all relevant projects, large and small… thus enabling people to donate to the overall effort.
There is no need for these statistics to be true anymore. We have all the tools we need to completely eliminate this suffering and waste of life. The predominant victims of this terrible situation are young children. These kids deserve a chance.
The projects in this program will be upwardly scalable, and as such, the more money we can raise, the more filters we can give out. Instead of creating and packaging the individual filter delivery projects one by one and funding them separately, it makes sense to raise as much money as possible and keep the filters flowing. In this way, we can also get larger grants from foundations and concerned organizations. We fully expect that this program will grow into the largest thing we have done.
For those interested in the filter technology we are presently proposing, please feel free to go to the Sawyer website and peruse the relevant materials. We will be implementing primarily their Point One filter, but for hospitals, clinics and other sites we will also be making the Point Zero Two purifier available. [note: normally viruses are not a major issue for drinking water.]
This is an exciting program, and we hope you will see the need for it and join in. Water Charity is currently active in over 60 countries around the world. As the money comes in we will take the Filters for Life – Worldwide program into all of them and beyond.
If there are certain regions where you are especially interested in helping, it will be possible to donate specifically for those countries or areas. Just send us a message with your donation. However, we are hoping people will recognize that a general donation to the program itself will be the most effective way to get the maximum number of filters out in the shortest amount of time.
We are water… literally. The human body is about 70% water by mass, and a typical human cell is composed of 98.73% water molecules.
Individual FFL projects in their entirety can be found HERE, and are listed at the bottom of THIS page. Please consider supporting this monumental effort.
Flood Emergency Relief—Pakistan
Ebeye Water Filter Distribution—The Marshall Islands
Water Filter Distribution – Marshall Islands
Water for Everyone – The Marshall Islands
Final Report of Water Filter Distribution – Karuk Tribe
Yurok Nation Water Filter Project – Northern California
Guatemala City Garbage Dump Water Filters Project – Part 3
Guatemala City Garbage Dump Water Filters Project – Part 2
Guatemala City Garbage Dump Water Filter Projects
Niamina Water Filter Project – The Gambia
Non Khun School Water Project – Thailand
Shatsk Forest College Water Project – Ukraine
Rainwater Harvesting Program – Maldives
Ban Bua Yai Pre-School Water Filter Project – Thailand
Arkhangai Hospital Water Filter Project – Mongolia
Saintsagaan Water Filter Project – Mongolia
Water Charity Typhoon Haiyan Relief – Philippines
Svetlii Kindergarten Water Filter Project – Moldova
Palatoa Native Community Filter Project – Peru
Sololá Water Filter Project, Phase 5 – Guatemala
Sololá Water Filter Project, Phase 4 – Guatemala
Sololá Water Filter Project, Phase 3 – Guatemala
Sololá Water Filter Project, Phase 2 – Guatemala
Sololá School Filter Project – Guatemala
Arkhangai Hospital Water Filter Project – Mongolia
Earthquake Relief & Water Filter Project – Nepal
Foundiougne Water Filters Project – Senegal
Oaxaca Earthquake Relief & Water Filter Project – Mexico
Colombia Lifewater Project – Estacion Villa – Colombia
Palencia and Suchitepéquez Water Filter Project – Guatemala
San Juan Water Filter Project – Dominican Republic
Water Filters For South Sudan – Program
Golden Fish Kindergarten Water Filtration Project – Ukraine
Village of Hope – Rotary Biosand Filter Training – Tanzania
Clean Water For Schools Initiative – Fiji