Celebrating World Water Day
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Convoy of Hope celebrated World Water Day, March 22, with new opportunities and more chances for people to help in the global water crisis. This day was to raise awareness of the need for clean drinking water around the world and Convoy of Hope provides people with a way to help those people in need.
The water filters implemented by the Convoy of Hope team are called Bio-Sand filters where the water is driven by gravity through layers of sand and gravel inside of a concrete or plastic container. The sand and gravel removes over 95% of the dirt, bacteria, viruses, parasites, and other impurities from the water. The filters can be made anywhere in the world because it is built with simple materials that are available.
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Convoy of Hope has been active in building water filters around the world wherever clean water is needed. The following are current estimated statistics for 2008 based on the 2007 rate per month of placing the water filters in these particular countries. In total, there have been about 360 filters placed in these countries.
Ecuador: 200 plastic barrel filters
Group from MSU-unknown country-5 plastic barrel filters
Haiti: 74 plastic filters sent on the container
Mali: 10-20 concrete filters
Peru: 10 plastic barrel filters
Philippines: 50 plastic filters
South Africa: 1 plastic filter
Sudan: 5-10 concrete filters
Zimbabwe: 2 concrete filters
If you would like to help with providing clean water for people around the world, please donate now. Thank you for your contribution.