Fundacion SODIS

To develop and promote solutions for improving drinking water quality and health. For achieving this, we cooperate with the private, public and development sector in order to benefit people in Latin America.

Safe Drinking Water for 40 schools in Bolivia

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$19,837

$6,162

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Safe Drinking Water for 40 schools in Bolivia

Bolivia Children

Teachers and students of 40 schools in Bolivia will be trained on how to obtain safe drinking water and improve hygiene conditions at school. Simple and affordable technologies like Solar Water Disinfection (SODIS) will be promoted.

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Develop an indicator for Solar Water Disinfection

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$2,754

$7,246

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Develop an indicator for Solar Water Disinfection

Bolivia Technology

This project will develop and test an indicator, developed in partnership with InnoCentive, to support local health workers promote Solar Water Disinfection (SODIS), a low-cost method to purify drinking water. SODIS has been shown to be an effective and adequate intervention to prevent waterborne diseases like diarrhea, cholera and dysentery. With the support of the low-cost indicator, the method can be promoted even more effectively.

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Improve water and hygiene conditions for 1200 kids

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$552

$11,448

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Improve water and hygiene conditions for 1200 kids

Bolivia Children

This project will improve water and hygiene conditions at schools in Anzaldo (Bolivia), directly impacting 1200 children. The schools will also be prepared to serve as improvised shelters in the case of an emergency. Adequate infrastructure will be provided and teachers and administrative staff will be trained.

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$2,635

$7,365

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Micro-credit for families in Cochabamba

Bolivia Microfinance

People living in peri-urban areas of cities in the developing world have a large unmet need for improved water and sanitation services. This need currently is neither met by the existing commercial sector nor by government entities. This project offers attractive conditions to low-income families for micro-credits in order to facilitate access to improved water and sanitation services (toilets, etc.). Additionally, it provides customized advisory services and hygiene education to the families.

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Safe Drinking Water for 15 day care centers

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$4,400

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Safe Drinking Water for 15 day care centers

Bolivia Children

This project will provide safe drinking water and improved hygiene to fifteen day care centers in Tiquipaya (Bolivia). We will train the educators of the day care centers on water and hygiene and how to implement simple solutions for saving lives. Water filters will be given to each center (one per class room) and portable hand washing facilities will be installed. We also will involve the kids' families in order to make sure the healthy habits promoted in this project will reach households.

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Safe Drinking Water for 80,000 Children in Bolivia

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Safe Drinking Water for 80,000 Children in Bolivia

Bolivia Health

80,000 school children in Bolivia will be trained in simple, affordable techniques to sustainably improve their health. Techniques include hand washing and solar water purification (SODIS).

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