Clean water · Chhaimale
Filters for a village that had none.
Chhaimale is a hill village outside Kathmandu. Families there drank what the source gave them, and waterborne illness was an ordinary part of life. It was also killing people, most often the very young and the very old.
We delivered household water filters and stayed until people had used them, cleaned them, and could keep them running without us. Since the filters went in, the village reports deaths from waterborne illness have fallen sharply.
It is the cheapest work we fund and the fastest to show a result. A child who is not sick is a child who can be in school, which is the whole point.