CURRENT PROJECTS
Right now we are focusing our efforts on raising funds to supply either large shipments of PUR or individual family packs of it to organizations in these countries. PuR is an amazingly cost effective way of providing clean and safe drinking water to those who do not have it. Enough PuR for a whole village can be transported in a large suitcase. A purifier of water, PuR (by Proctor & Gamble) allows an individual to convert the filthiest, most contaminated water and make it clean and safe to drink in a matter of minutes. Since a person can live 40 days without food, but only 3 without water, we consider the provision of drinking water to be a very basic need.
According to the World Health Organization safe drinking water is one of the worlds greatest needs. More than 1 billion people in the world lack safe water,and an estimated 2.2 million children die each year from diarrheal diseases, many of which could be prevented by safe drinking water. For people in developed countries it is hard to imagine that simply drinking a necessary glass of water, for millions of people in the world, means taking their life in their hands.
I think we have all seen the photos of sick and dying children and heard endless statistics about need and diseases. If you are like me, the scope of the problem seems overwhelming. The provision of PuR through Pure Compassion Ministries provides a simple and tangible way to start solving basic needs for safe water around the world one family at a time..
To date we have supplied almost 500,000 packets of PuR free of charge to ministries in developing countries. Given that one packet of PuR purifies 10 liters of water this is almost 5,000,000 liters of fresh drinkable water supplied directly to those who need it. To provide water that doesn’t kill one’s children, that frees one from daily diarrhea, that keeps ecoli from feces or dead animals from being ingested in meals, that doesn’t contain worms or other parasites that feed on the people who drink it , that does not require resources to procure it that they do not have, this can literally give people the strength to carry on. This is a gift worth giving.