The Trailblazer Foundation also drills wells, provides irrigation kits for farmers, helps establish vegetable gardens and fish farms, provides mosquito nets (to prevent malaria), provides flip flops (to protect from hookworms), provides sewing machines, provides vocational training (in well drilling, sewing, and cosmetology), and builds schools. To find out more, go to: http://thetrailblazerfoundation.org
If you're looking for a place to donate some money this year, it only costs $60 to sponsor a water filter. Cambodia is one of the poorest countries in SE Asia and continues to be affected by waterborne illnesses on a daily basis. 1 in 7 children dies before the age of five, often because of bad water. Every year there are over 9 million cases of diarrheal diseases reported (9 million cases in a country of 14.8 million people). It's estimated to cost the nation $448 million a year.
These water filters are easy to operate and maintain (the villagers are taught how to do it). The filters trap and degrade sediment, parasites, and 98% of bacteria. All of this is done through simple, chemical-free technology that lasts for years!
If you did decide to donate to this project, I could quite possibly be the one to help build the water filter that you sponsored and deliver it to the village where it will be used - even with your name on the side :)
Other donations go to: $5 mosquito nets, $1 flip flops, $200 sewing machines, etc. If you donate money, you can specify what it goes toward if you want to...otherwise they will put it toward what's needed most at the time. All of the donations go directly to projects for the villages & all donations are tax deductible as Trailblazer is a nonprofit 501(c)(3).
Note: Most of this info comes from Trailblazer Foundation brochures & the website posted above.
Siem Reap. Cambodia.
To see previous grateful posts, go to: https://www.facebook.com/media/set?set=a.912670070129.2244334.42800145&type=3&l=0202607a60
