WATER ACCESS TO ALL: Help us provide clean drinking water

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Water Access To All, the name of the project and it's mission. Our goal at W.A.T.A. help provide clean drinking water by setting up clean water systems in communities and areas in need around the world.

PROJECT: SOUTHEAST ASIA

Currently we have projects in VIETNAM and MYANMAR. Read more about each project below.

VIETNAM

Located in the central highlands of Vietnam, a number of villages and communities live with the land, farming and raising livestock while hidden away in the mountains. With this comes it's problems, and clean drinking water is one of them. The water sources are contaminated and they cause the people to get sick. Our goal is to help these communities get access to clean drinking water by donating and setting up water filters and systems.

TRIP 1:

In September 2023, I was fortunate enough to travel to one of these villages with the Han-Schneider Foundation where, Arthur Han, was opening up a new elementary school for the village. Like previous trips with Han-Schneider, I tagged along and brought 10 water filters. While at the school I was able to educate the teachers about the filters while donating the 10 that I had brought. One of the leaders of the village asked if I could bring more filters and that's where things started to get serious...

TRIP 2:

6 months from that request, I was able to fund another trip (thanks to the people who have supported and donated!) and In March 2024, we traveled back to that village with 50 filters! We were able to not only bring these filters (after getting a warning from customs) but we also set them up for each family. We installed each filter to a bucket and that system was donated to 50 families that were picked by the school. While at the village, we had forgotten to buy bottles of water, and instead relied on the filter we donated to school as our only source of clean drinking water. That's when it really hit for me..

TRIP 3: (TENTATIVE)

The goal now is to continue to setup filters in the villages. There are hundreds of villages located in the mountains and thousands of people who could benefit from clean water. Our goal is to be able to fund the purchase of these filters and funds the trips so that we can go set them up and train the leaders on how to effectively use and clean them. In addition, we plan on empowering the leaders and providing education regarding Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH). The plan is to return at the end of October/beginning of November 2024.

Please join us in our mission in providing these people with clean drinking water. You are vital to our success and any and all donations are greatly appreciated.

PHOTOS/VIDEOS:

TRIP 1:

Trip 1 Recap Video