Convoy of Hope Recognizes World Water Day with Community Awareness
For Immediate Release:
Springfield, Mo. — More than 1.4 billion people lack access to clean water and a child dies every 10 seconds because of unclean water. Convoy of Hope will increase awareness of this dire need as it recognizes World Water Day on March 22, Convoy of Hope is sponsoring a weeklong display at Battlefield Mall in conjunction with a variety of other activities throughout Southwest Missouri.
“World Water Day is an opportunity to think about people who don’t have clean water, which causes us to want to do something to help them,” says Convoy of Hope Corporate Relations Director Rick Waggoner. “It is very difficult to just ignore the problem once you know about it.”
The interactive display featured at Battlefield Mall from March 19-25 will demonstrate the bio-sand water filters that the organization distributes in countries around the world; it will also highlight their well-drilling projects. Visitors will have the opportunity to pour unclean water into the simple bio-sand filtration system and witness the clean water that soon pours out. These efficient filters cost around $30 to create and daily provide enough water for a household after removing 99% of contaminants.
Recently, Convoy of Hope staff trained Drury University students in the production of the bio-sand filters. The students are devoting their spring break, March 17-29, to constructing water filters in Zambia, one of the poorest nations in the world. Also coinciding with World Water Day, a Convoy of Hope team is in Uganda, where bio-sand filters will be life-sustaining gifts to people who are reestablishing their lives after years of a violent civil war.
World Water Day was established in 1993 by the United Nations in an effort to draw global attention to the devastating lack of clean water in many places around the world.
Convoy of Hope invites the public to take advantage of these opportunities to learn and help meet the physical needs of those less fortunate. Learn more at http://www.convoyofhope.org/water
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For more information:
Jeff Nene, Media and Communications Director, 417/823-8998, 417/860-2196 mobile
Kristin Kubitschek, Public Relations Director, 417/823-8998