Give a family clean drinking water

Bio Sand filters for families in rural areas who do not have treated water to drink.

This is a new project, whereby we will build the sand filters in Kenya. Each sand filter after it's finish will be installed in a home of four or more people. We will provide them with the education to keep it clean and ensure their drinking water is safe for them.

We will be reaching out to the people. We will provide them with the education to keep it clean and ensure their drinking water is safe for them.

We will be reaching out to the Peace Corp and the Rotary on this project, but it all depends on donations to help with the building of the units. Each unit is estimated to cost $65-75 US each to complete, with the needed sand gravel and rocks for filtering.

Would you like to provide a needy family with Bio filter for clean drinking water?

Water

Water is not only a basic need for life but also a human right according to the UN. Consumption of unsafe water causes gastrointestinal illness that kill more than 2 million. The solution to the problem of waterborne gastrointestinal illness is to provide universal access to safe, disease free, reliable piped water supplies. But the costs of providing the necessary infrastructure are often prohibitive for communities in less developed nations. Recent evidence documents that simple and low-cost household interventions can provide safe water and decrease risks of diarrheal disease. For example, chlorination of household water in a dedicated water container can reduce microorganisms by >99% and reduce diarrheal illness by 44% (Quick et al. 1999). While interventions such as chlorine disinfection has been successful in the field, there are drawbacks. In particular, chlorination is less effective in waters with higher turbidity.

Various filtration methods for reducing microbes in water have been widely known and practiced for decades and new ones continue to be developed and evaluated. One emerging point-of-use technology is the biosand filter (BSF), a household-scale, intermittently operated, slow and filter. The long term goal of the research is to characterize the performance of the filter in the field, and assess its ability to reduce diarrheal diseases. Currently, the Peace Corps, Rotary Club International and other partners are working together to supply filters and education in their use to thousands of households in many communities in the Dominican Republic (DR). In 2004-2005 alone, more than 2500 filters will be installed in homes in DR. While this effort to introduce BSF for household water treatment is a potentially important intervention to provide safe water to those who lack it, scientific evidence is needed to determine if the BSF-treated water is of high microbiological quality and really safe and if such water reduces the household burden of diarrheal disease.

You may contact us for more information on any of these programs that are in process now. If you would like to make a donation, please indicate with your donation which one of the projects you would like to help complete. You will receive a tax deduct letter from Friends of Woni Kenya International, Inc thanking you for your donation. If you include your e mail, photos will be forwarded to you of the projects and how your donation helped to finish a project of your choice.

We thank you for taking the time to read through our projects, and hope you will find it in your heart and pocket book to donate these worthwhile projects.

There is an old saying, "There but for the grace of God, go I". We are blessed to have been born in a country of plenty, with an abundance of many things. Giving is a way of receiving, it feels going inside to know you helped someone far away that has nothing.


Asante Sana,