Matt setting up the water filter.
One of the families who received a water filter. Elie, the boy in the wheelchair, received his chair from Hope Haven.
The filter itself, two bags of sand, two bags of stones.
Water from the well.
The filter once it has been set up.
We had a couple boxes full of water filters at the factory
and were given permission to give set them up with some of the families we’ve
been working with in Xenacoj and surrounding areas. It is a container where
water is poured in with BioSand and stones. The sand is used to reduce
bacteria, viruses, and parasites from the water.
We are hoping that these filters will limit the amount
of parasites and worms in the drinking water of these families. At home, we are
currently also testing another type of water filtration system, one that is manufactured
here in Guatemala by a Guatemalan company called Onil. This might be cheaper better to set up, and they would not have to be shipped down from the in the US.
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