Clean Water for a Remote Village
Chipaya is a remote Indian Village high in the Bolivian salt plains rarely visited by outsiders. Its 1800 villagers live in mud huts with no electricity, no sanitation, and without clean drinking water. On a recent medical trip by Healing the Children, doctors found almost 80% of their patients were infected with water-borne diseases. With funding, volunteers hope to install a low cost, highly durable purification system that will destroy 99.9 % of all bacteria and viruses in the water. With the purification unit attached to their current water delivery system, clean drinkable water would be accessible to every single person in the village.