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05/16/10
Gaoyou Clean Water project
A Child's Right (ACR) is a nonprofit
503 (c) charitable relief agency dedicated to changing the lives of
vulnerable children around the world by providing clean and safe
drinking water to the facilities in which they live. Through an
agreement with the China Center of Adoption Affairs and the China Social
Work Association under the Ministry of Civil Affairs, they are undertaking a 5 year project to
provide 400 orphanages throughout China safe drinking water for all of their orphaned and abandoned children.
In February 2007 Rebecca Field and I, adoptive parents of children from Gaoyou,
started raising funds for
ACR to
install a clean drinking water system in the Gaoyou
Children's Welfare Institution. The support from the Gaoyou
Families was immediate, and we had raised the $3,500 needed
in just a few days. A warm thank you to everyone who was
able to contribute.
Rebecca and I will be traveling to Gaoyou in September
'08 to help with the installation. We'll post details here
about our trip here.
If there is another CWI that is close to your heart please
consider starting a fundraising campaign of your own to bring clean
water to these at risk children.
The total cost of a orphanage drinking water system is $3,500 and this
includes
First drink of clean water at the Chongqing CWI. Photo
used courtesy of A Child's Right
- Installation of a professional, top-tier water
purification system. ACR uses water purification technology
that includes three filtration/purification systems--a 5 micron
filter to get rid of dirt and sediment, an activated carbon filter
to get rid of bad tastes and smells, and a UV water purification
system to eradicate all bacteria, viruses and pathogens in the
water. The water purification systems also include a system
safeguard: a solenoid valve that shuts down the system during power
outages and brownouts so no unsafe water will ever reach a child 5 years of maintenance and supplies to keep the clean water
flowing.
- Provide spare parts and professional maintenance for
five years after each system is installed.
- Perform water-quality testing every six months for five
years after each system is installed.
