Saturday, September 29, 2007
100Cdn made an impact in the life of Rufina Amini
The smile of Rufina Amini grows as she softly speaks of the positive impact the BioSand water filter has made within her family. Provided by Samaritans Purse and their Malawian partner, E.A.M., the BioSand filter provides Rufina, her husband, and their three children with clean drinking water and an improved quality of life. Used in daily hand-washing, cooking, bathing and washing of clothes in addition to drinking, Rufina routinely filters around 40 litres of water a day for her household. Because of the clean water no one in the family suffers from routine diarrheal diseases as they did in the past. In Chichewa she told us of how just three weeks prior, she was with her daughter Christina tending to their maize fields and how they both drank from the stream. Their choice to take this risk caused them a few days of discomfort however they are now firm believers in the importance of filtering their drinking water.
Read or Post a Comment
<< Home