By Chris Coats | Executive Director/Co-founder
Trailblazer is proud to report that so far in 2015 nearly 2,000 more rural villagers have clean drinking water with the installation of 126 bio-sand water filters, and over 400 villagers now have access to water with the installation of 25 wells. With access to water villagers are irrigating gardens, raising fish and improving their overall health along with increasing their ability to generate income.
Addressing another clean water issue. Trailblazer received a 40 foot container, nearly 5,000 boxes, of Proctor & Gamble PUR water purification sachets. That is enough sachets to purify over 20,000,000 liters of water! Each packet purifies 10 liters of water. The majority of these PUR water sachets are being distributed to thousands of villagers living out on and around Tonle Sap Lake where our bio-sand water filters are not appropriate.
Trailblazer's latrine project to improve the sanitation and hygiene for 62 families in Preah Ko Chas village was made possible by the generous donation of $5,000 from SSKIDS [Simple Supper for Kids in Desperate Situations] at their 18th annual soup supper. The village population served has 565 people, of which 259 are female with 157 children below the age of 14. Latrines reduce the amounts of ground surface Ecoli and typhoid which contaminate crops and surface water used by villagers, and provide a more comfortable and private area for use by all beneficiaries, especially women and children.
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