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 Water Purification
Water purification training and support currently exists in Tanzania and NE India. Another training and support is planned in northern Tanzania in summer 2009, and people in Nepal are hoping to gain assistance. We continue to work with the Center for Affordable Water and Sanitation Technology in Canada, the Small Industry Development Organization in Tanzania, and the Government of Mizoram, India, to provide education and training to build and maintain biosand water filters.
Filters are provided as possible to those who can not afford them. Development of expertise in country provides the opportunity to have a small business which supplies needed help to obtain clean water. Some filters can be provided as a result of small profits made on filters bought by those who can afford them. This supports the business and those who run it. Filters are inexpensive, purify water to 97-99% purity and last 50 years. Our role is to bring the training program to those who want it, so they can begin production, train others and provide filters to those in need. Currently we are also in need of funding to dig a well at Nira Orphanage. They have to walk two km. daily to get water for the day. Once the well is in place we will provide filters to clean the water. Gifts to this program provide funding for steel molds to build concrete filters, buy required materials, help pay training costs, and to access water by digging wells. Links
Centre for Affordable Water and Sanitation Technology Nira Orphanage
In collaboration with HealthSpan International
This small orphanage outside Dar es Salaam, run by one woman, out concern for the 40 children who would otherwise be on the street, operates on a day to day existence. Whatever can be found to eat, or for other needs, is used immediately. Children come to the orphanage mostly as the result of parental death due to HIV/AIDS when there is no family, or neighbors to care for them. Donations to this orphanage provide money to feed and clothe the children, and for government school exam fees. In Tanzania, if exam fees are not paid children must leave school.  Safe Motherhood Mobile Clinics
In collaboration with HealthSpan International
This weekly program began four years ago after discussion with community leaders and traditional healers. It provides education, medical care, and vaccinations to over 200 pre and post natal women and their children weekly, and anyone else who shows up, who would otherwise have no access to medical care. Nurses (and a doctor when available) go to a central location, a bar in Mikocheni village and under a big tree in Boko, to treat mothers and their children, and provide vaccinations, pap testing for STDs and cancer, and HIV testing as requested. Four clinics in different locations operate weekly.
The third and fourth clinics serving a population of 100,000 opened in 2008.
As part of this clinic nurses teach students weekly at the primary school (ages 5-15) about basic health. This includes HIV prevention, clean water, and other pertinent topics. Gifts to this program pay for nurses' stipend, pap testing, HIV testing and for teaching aids and materials. The goal is to expand this program to other locations, identified by local medical personnel, as funds allow. Medical Equipment and Supplies Program
In collaboration with HealthSpan International
This program gathers medical equipment and supplies and sends them. Currently, the Mission Mikocheni Hospital, and Hubert Kairuki Medical University in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and the Civil Hospital in the State of Mizoram, NE India, receive equipment and supplies. See NEWS regarding specific current events. Gifts to this program provide funds to ship donated equipment and materials to selected hospital's and universities.
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