Fight childhood disease with safe drinking water

Our bags are packed, and we’re ready to go!  Next Saturday Agua Pura heads to Honduras to present another of our programs in clean water and sanitation.  It will be the largest program we have ever done and we’re excited about it.  We are going to train community leaders from a number of small rural towns in simple, inexpensive, modern methods of water testing and water purification.  We’ll demonstrate different ways to purify water and simple ways to keep it clean, then we’ll go with them back to their communities and help them pass the message on to their neighbors.  
  Hand washing is also an important part of staying healthy but in many communities water is scarce  and so we’ll help families set up stations in their homes where they can wash without wasting precious water.  We’ll also be demonstrating simple stoves that can be used to pasteurize  water and also cook meals using waste biomass fuels instead of cutting down trees for firewood.
It will be a busy couple of weeks, but I think we can pull it off!   It would not have been possible however without your support.   All the supplies and training materials we’re taking are expensive, but your donations have helped purchase them and you can be proud of what you’ve done. We established a special fund here on Global Giving just dedicated to this project and many of you contributed to support us: “Clean Water for 300 families in Honduras.” That fund is now closed but you can still contribute on our ongoing regular site “Clean Water for 1000 families in Latin America”.  On our next posting we will have lot of photos from this new trip and we hope you will continue to follow our work, and we look forward to hearing from you in the future
Tom

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