How Your Rotary Club Can Help!
Bio-Sand Filter Adoption Programs
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ADOPT A VILLAGE PARTNERSHIP
- Up to 90 Bio-Sand Filters to neediest village families
- Each family, or partner, must pay a small portion of the cost of each household filter. The sponsor pays all other costs of the program.
- Community steward trained to operate and maintain village filters for one year
- Educational program to teach village children water sanitation (this includes a bar of soap for each school child)
REWARDS:
- Provide up to 1,350 people with clean water per day for 25-30 years
- Sponsor name on every donated filter
- Plaque in village with sponsor name inscribed
- Sponsors’s name on a plaque in the Kolar workshop
- Photograph of villagers with certificate of appreciation
- Ongoing updates of program activities
COST:
- Varies for each village depending on number of subsidized filters purchased by villagers; maximum is $3,000 for subsidy of 90 filters
For Information Contact: Cathy Forsberg, e-mail Info@SAPWII.org,
Tel 203-626-5576
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