With the additional financial support of Alix Donation Fund, Ecofiltro is in the process of distributing within various rural communities, a total of 1,187 water filters in the following areas of Guatemala:
Escuintla, Suchitepéquez, Ojer Kaibal Chimaltenango, Joya Grande, Chimaltenango, Zaragoza Chimaltenango, Tecpán Guatemala
With this support, Asociación Familia de las Americas, the institution which manufactures in the Ecofiltro, will provide these Guatemalan homes a safe and practical tool to purify water. These poor families who live in extreme poverty, were affected by Hurricane Stan in 2005 and to date have struggled to recover economically. This help comes at a timely moment since filters expired after one year of using.
Each family averages 7 members, so we estimate that thanks to ADF donations, 8,309 people have been benefited by improving their health prospects and thus, quality of life.
An important part of this process is community participation, as each household contributes a percentage of the cost of replacements parts that are delivered to their homes. The families are very thankful to receive their waterfilters and they plan to keep replacing them every year, since they have seen the correlation between clean water and their children no longer having diarrhea and other stomach illness due to drinking polluted water.
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