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BRING CLEAN WATER TO CHILDREN’S HOSPITALS IN CHINA

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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. project 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: $3,242
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $21,757
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

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Eric Stowe
Director
917 Pacific Ave
Suite 404
Tacoma, WA 98402
United States
253-238-8766
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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
http://www.achildsright.org

Learn more about A CHILD'S RIGHT and the project team.

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 January 28, 2010.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on March 13, 2009

Latest Update from the Field

January 2010 update

By Eric Stowe - Director, January 28, 2010 10:35 AM

We are now a tenth of the way toward completing our goal of raising $25,000 for this project!

In the months since the project was introduced to GlobalGiving and now, we have completed more than 150 similar installations in orphanages in 8 provinces in Western China, and have begun site inspections for similar installations in several dozen migrant schools in Beijing and Shanghai.

We continue to work with the Ministry of Civil Affairs and Ministry of Health to find the best hospitals for this project. We have thus far located more than 20 hospitals which would be perfect sites for our water systems. Once we reach halfway toward the end goal we can begin implementing the project accordingly.

Please do not hesitate with any questions or comments.

Thanks, Eric

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