By Jeremy Maes | Project leader
With some students (10 to 14 years old) we had a workshop, asking them what they drink all day long.
It was really interesting to know that almost all students never or quite never drink water. The reason is that the water is contaminated with bacteria and iron. The problem of bacteria is that students are often sick from diarrhea and consequences they do not attend school. If they are small children (under 5 years) it can lead to death caused by dehydration, for example. The problem of iron, is a lack in growth among others.
This is why, the technical team, is going to install in each class room a filter, a safe drinking water filter. Until now the school had only some water bottle.
We did a small exercise, and through comparing numbers, we concluded that each 850 school kids may have 120 milliliters per day, not even a whole glass of water per day!! That means, that they have to drink from another source of water, like tap water, who is contaminated!
With the installation of safe drinking water filter in each class room, the kids may drink up to 750 milliliters per day.
In the few next days, we will start workshops and training on the use of drinking water and some hygiene practices.
Many thanks for your support and warm greetings from the whole team
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