This Months Mission: Helping Provide Clean Water in Africa

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This Months Mission Helping Provide Clean Water
in Africa

• Novembers Mission Operation Christmas Child!

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The Problem

• Lack of Clean Water
• Every 20 seconds
• a child dies from
• diseases associated
• with unclean water.

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How many

• Every minute
• Every hour
• Every day
• Every year

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180
4320
1,576,800
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One Solution

• The Biosand Filter

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How They Work
No electricity needed no moving parts
durable construction
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Who Invented These

• Dr. David Manz of Canada

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• When children have clean water, they are
  healthier, which means they miss less school, and
  their parents are able to go to work and help the
  family.

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What do these cost?

• Through Tenwek Hospitals Community Health
  Program, each biosand filter can be built for
  25.00
• Each family pays just 7.00 for their biosand
  filter. One filter can provide enough clean
  water for 8-10 people in one family.

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New inventions
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Is there another lesson for us?

• Jesus taught in parablestelling stories about
  things that were common in peoples lives.
• Water is common to usclean water and dirty
  water.
• Some of what makes water unclean or unsafe is
  visible, some is invisible.