Archive for June 12th, 2009

Providing Safe Water in Africa

Author: Chuck

Jun 12

Dear Friends,

Below is some uplifting news that we’ve recently been receiving. As you know, the result of safe water is less sickness and more health. Because of your compassion, members of our spiritual family around the world are enjoying those blessings.

First, here is a photo of the children of Hope Children’s Home in Kenya, who are now benefitting from a biosand filter from Heaven’s Family:

Your gifts to the Safe Water Fund have not only been helping poor believers in Kenya, but also in Rwanda and India. The establishment of filter production centers in those nations is resulting in lives being saved. Hundreds of families are benefitting. Below is a photo we just received of biosand filters that have recently been completed in our production center in Kenya:

And here is a very encouraging letter from Justin Nkundabagenzi, our biosand team leader in
Rwanda:

Hi,

Love and greetings! I’m sure you are doing fine by God’s grace. We are going on with the filter work trying to help people to improve their hygiene and sanitation standards.

The filters distribution we have just completed was conducted in a very poor village called ‘Sabe’. The houses are so tiny there at such an extent that even the inhabitants can find hardly where to put their beds. So we couldn’t place the filters inside the very houses. We had to set up shelters just meant for the filters; and it is the village chief who keeps the keys of the shelters.

It was such a joy in the village! Actually in this place they have no drinking water. There are a lot of diseases related to lack of hygiene and unclean water; especially that they have no toilets and people have to pass stools in the open air.

There is a high rate of children mortality there; maybe because the adults can resist better to different infections. Even by the time we were there for distribution of filters there were funerals for a child who had just died. The main cause of death is diarrhea. The common belief there is that this children mortality is due to poisoning/sorcerers.

I tried to teach some basics of hygiene and explain about the use and benefits of Biosand filters.

After they had received the filters, they expressed their deep gratitude and prayed …. so that they can stand against the economic crisis which is affecting the whole world, since so many people on this end are still not unable to access to good drinking water. So biosand filters are badly needed.

Thanks again and God bless you for all the good work you are doing to help the helpless.

Justin

Finally, here is a photo we received that is heart-breaking. It shows a typical water source in rural Africa. Can you imagine getting your drinking water like this every day?