The water you drink every day is contaminated with dangerous bacteria and parasites such as amoeba, Salmonella, Cholera, Thyphoid, Hepatitis and much more... just like this little guy here.
ou live in a developing country such as Cambodia. Your monthly income is less than 200 US dollars. The water source available to you is the open well in front of your house or the nearby river.
You can spend your hard-earned money on expensive bottled water, or you can drink the water from the open well in front of the house and hope and pray that you don't get sick.
In your country there are often floods or periods of drought, and the water in the open well is contaminated by faecal bacteria or it dries out. What do you do then?
You drink the water from the open well, because you don’t see an alternative. But the water is contaminated with dangerous bacteria. You are often sick and have diarrhea, which means you can't absorb food properly. You have no energy to work and feel weak. Your children are also sick. They should be attending school every day, but they are often absent. You buy antibiotics at the pharmacy, which helps… but somehow the antibiotics seem to be getting weaker and the diarrhea returns again.
800 million people still have no access to clean water.
1.8 million people die every year from poor drinking water, 90% of them are children under the age of 5.
There are many ways to make drinking water safer. With the Warm Blankets Clean Water Project, we have the opportunity to break this vicious cycle. Young children are particularly susceptible to dangerous bacteria! Children in poor countries often lag behind in their physical and mental development.
The goal of the Clean Water Project is to give children who are on the margins of society access to clean drinking water. With clean drinking water, children and families have a greater chance at a healthy and fulfilled life.
In developing countries such as Cambodia, we test water for dangerous bacteria and other contaminants and install appropriate filters. Through hygiene training and education, we teach children how to properly handle water. Basic hygiene rules such as hand washing and safe water storage also have a major impact on health.