We are sending a BIG “thank you” to everyone who has so graciously contributed in our effort to be Christ’s “hands and feet” during this crisis, providing clean water to so many suffering people. After two days of travel (and the minor distractions of break-downs, rain, and mud), Agua Yaku arrived in Trinidad with 200 […]
Follow the link above to donate a Sawyer filter through Razoo and our U.S. nonprofit partner “Clean Water Movement.” Our goal is to raise $80,000 so we can provide 1000 Sawyer filters to Bolivian families who have lost everything in the floods of 2014. With a Sawyer filter displaced families will be able to filter […]
On Facebook, Tara Swanepoel shared the following story along with a plea for prayers. We in Agua Yaku are trying hard to get up to Trinidad and distribute the Sawyer filters, but on Friday the levees broke and the city flooded. We are waiting on the direction of the pastors of First Baptist of Santa […]
Recap: Bolivia has received three times the normal amount of rain this year, resulting in extreme flooding in the eastern lowland departments of Santa Cruz, Beni, Cochabamba, and Pando. 60,000 families are homeless, 55 people have drowned, 50,000 head of livestock have perished. Pictures speak a 1000 words, so below you will find recent media […]
In the last four days $US 14,900 has been pledged to purchase Sawyer water filters for victims of recent flooding in Bolivia. This is enough to provide filters for 186 families who have lost their homes and are desperately in need safe clean drinking water. Our goal it to provide 1000 filters to flood victims. […]
EMERGENCY–Flooding in Bolivia Continues Posted on February 16, 2014 by danielbeams • Posted in Water Filtration • Leave a comment • Edit The sun has come out for the weekend, but the rivers are still rising in the eastern departments of Cochabamba and Beni. The latest news reports indicate that 55 people have drowned, 11 are missing and, over 55,000 families have been left […]
While it has been cold in North America this winter, it has been wet, wet, wet here in Bolivia. If you haven’t seen Bolivia in the international news, take a look at this recent article: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/06/us-bolivia-floods-idUSBREA151LT20140206 By the latest count there are officially 42 people dead, 15 missing, and 12,000 head of livestock drowned. I’m […]