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. progress reportread updates from the field

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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
Email:

Project Sponsor

GlobalGiving

Organization

A CHILD'S RIGHT Logo

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 ChinaChina and can also be found under ChildrenChildren.

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

Apologies for any confusion with the previous post, which was intended to give a general overview of our current progress in China.

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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