BRING CLEAN WATER TO CHILDREN’S HOSPITALS IN CHINA
Summary
This project offers one of the essential basics of health care by installing long-term purification filters to provide more than 40,000 children in pediatric hospitals with clean, safe drinking water.
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Project Needs and Beneficiaries
An estimated 140 million people have abandoned rural villages to work in China’s rapidly growing cities, but swelling urban migration and vast industrialization have polluted vital water sources and increased water and sanitation issues. China’s orphaned and hospitalized children suffer the most acutely from the chronic lack of potable water. In this day and age, with so many resources at our disposal, clean, safe drinking water should no longer be a privilege, but a basic right of every child.
Activities
ACR’s children’s hospital project focuses on installing custom filtration systems that rid the water of 99.99999 percent of all bacteria and 99.999 percent of viruses and other pathogens - the single biggest health problem for the children we aid.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $780
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $24,220
Total Funding Goal: $25,000
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
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Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
Ninety percent of the 3 million people who die every year due to waterborne diseases are children under the age of five. Better access to clean, safe drinking water will improve the health of hospitalized children in China and save precious lives.
Project Message
This is a very good water system that cuts germs and bacteria from the tap and helps prevent diarrhea tremendously. Now, we can let the children drink water from the tap and they enjoy it very much.
- Mr. Zhu, Office Manager, Tongliao Social Welfare Institute
Who is Running This Project
Contact
Eric Stowe
Director
917 Pacific Ave
Suite 404
Tacoma, WA 98402
United States
253-238-8766
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Project Sponsor
Organization
A CHILD'S RIGHT
917 Pacific Ave Suite 404
Tacoma,
CA
98402
United States
(253) 238-8766
www.achildsright.org
Where this Project is Located
Country
This project is located in
China
and can also be found under
Children.
For more information about China, read the Human Development Report on China or the Wikipedia entry for China.
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on November 6, 2009.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on March 13, 2009
Latest Update from the Field
Clean Water in Hospitals update
By E. Stowe - Director, August 25, 2009 12:41 PM
Presently, A Child's Right is working with the China Association of Social Workers, a sub-branch of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, to locate appropriate sites for our Clean Water for Hospitals project with Global Giving.
After compilation of at least 10 sites, we work with our China staff and the national government to test the water, inspect the sites, work with their administration and with the local government to ensure these sites are 1) in need of clean water 2) provide pediatric care for children as their primary mission 3) will provide the water free of charge to the children under their care and 4) have the necessary infrastructural items needed to effectively run our water systems (water pressure and electricity).
Our primary operations in China presently consist of more than 150 clean water installations per year in China’s orphanages. Late 2009 and early 2010 will see us expanding our reach to assist both hospitals and poor schools through provision sof clean and safe water. We have worked in the largest pediatric hospitals in both Nepal and Cambodia, but the Global Giving project will be our first in to large hospitals in China. We look forward to this partnership and any questions from potential supporters.
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