A Vision for Clean Water works in a variety of ways to bring
safe water to others.
Work in Developing Countries
Education Workshops
Work in Developing Countries
Nepal
The primary focus of our work in developing countries has been small villages in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal. We have placed filters in households in a number of villages and over 40 schools.
Why Nepal?
Nepal is the 12th poorest country in the world. While safe drinking water is a basic human right according to the World Heal Organization, millions of people in Nepal don’t have access to it. Close to 50% of its 24 million people live in poverty. UNICEF data has reported that approximately 50% of the children have stunted growth because of water-borne diseases and the death rates are extremely high for infants and children under five years of age. In the rural Terai region of Nepal, many water sources have arsenic and microbial contamination.
For information on how we work in developing countries, see Sustainability
Education Workshops
Prompted by the question of how to have a greater impact, A Vision for Clean Water provides training and know-how on how to provide safe drinking water in homes, schools, small villages and under-developed areas where public water and sanitation infrastructures are not in place
or foreseeable.
AVFCW conducts an annual Biosand Filter Workshop in partnership with CAWST (the Center for Affordable Water and Sanitation Technology) from Calgary, Canada. CAWST provides instructors who are environmental engineers with extensive experience in developing countries. In the past six years, AVFCW has trained approximately 70 workshop graduates who have taken on safe water projects in India, Mali, Rwanda, Kenya, Senegal, Tanzania, South Africa, Ecuador, Honduras, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic.
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