By Dixie Bickel | Executive Director
God's Littlest Angels uses 300 gallons of drinking water and 7000 gallons of cistern water in a week. That is a lot of water! Our 44 children drink water and water based drinks throughout the day. Our kitchen staff uses clean drinking water for cooking. We encourage the children and staff to drink as much water or flavored drinks as they will. We buy our drinking water at a small store just outside of our mission gates.
Everyone takes bucket baths and water is not wasted but with flushing toilets, mopping floors, washing dishes, bathing,and mixing cement for building etc, the water in our cisterns (concrete storage units) is used quickly. We have no wells or city water so we must purchase water and have it brought in by the truck load!
Recently, a mission who sells water purification units came to our facility in Fort Jacques and looked at what we have already and suggested a small system to purifiy our drinking water through reverse osmosis and ultraviolet treatment. The cost for the system is approximately $900. It would pay for itself quickly and then we would be purifying drinking water at little cost to the orphanage! The attached photo is similar to what we need to meet our drinking needs but just a little smaller.
Please help us raise the funds needed to purchase our own water purification sytem!
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