The Holy Thursday April 5, 2012 collection for Life Straws brought in $2,016.
For less than the cost of two bottles of water at an entertainment venue, you can supply a child for about a year with clean, safe drinking water. Visit http://www.rotarywaterprojects.org/ for more information and to watch videos about LifeStraw. You can also search on “LifeStraw” at YouTube for additional informational videos.
What is a key substance NASA scientists seek on a planet to determine whether it can support life? Water. No water, no life (at least, no life as we know it).
Most of us barely give clean drinking water any thought at all. We simply go to the nearest faucet or drinking fountain and presto: clear, clean drinking water. Unfortunately, for millions of people around the world, mostly in developing nations, it is far from this simple.
According to UNICEF and the World Health Organization, diarrhea kills more young children than AIDS, malaria, and the measles combined. Drinking unsafe water is a major cause of diarrheal diseases.
While in many regions the drinking water problem is complex and requires long-term solutions, one very effective immediate solution is LifeStraw.
LifeStraw is a plastic tube about one foot long and one inch in diameter. A person uses LifeStraw just like a regular straw. However, it contains a physical filtration system (no chemicals) that filters out 99.9999% of waterborne bacteria. LifeStraw is typically worn around a person’s neck (like a necklace) and lasts about a year. LifeStraw has won several awards, including the "Best Invention of 2005" from Time Magazine. It was used in the 2010 Haiti earthquake relief effort and in relief efforts for other natural disasters.
LifeStraw was developed and is manufactured by the company, Vestergaard Frandsen, which is based in Europe and guided by what they call “Humanitarian Entrepreneurship.” There are now a couple distributors in North America where you can purchase a LifeStraw for yourself to use, for example, while backpacking.
The Rotary Club of Fort Lauderdale ensures donations of LifeStraw get to where they are needed. The cost is only $6.50 per LifeStraw. How many of us have spent $4.00 (or more) just for a bottle of water at an entertainment venue – usually when there is free water available from a drinking fountain. So for less than the cost of two bottles of water at an entertainment venue, you can supply a child for about a year with clean, safe drinking water. Visit http://www.rotarywaterprojects.org/ for more information and to watch videos about LifeStraw. You can also search on “LifeStraw” at YouTube for additional informational videos.
For less than the cost of two bottles of water at an entertainment venue, you can supply a child for about a year with clean, safe drinking water. Visit http://www.rotarywaterprojects.org/ for more information and to watch videos about LifeStraw. You can also search on “LifeStraw” at YouTube for additional informational videos.
What is a key substance NASA scientists seek on a planet to determine whether it can support life? Water. No water, no life (at least, no life as we know it).
Most of us barely give clean drinking water any thought at all. We simply go to the nearest faucet or drinking fountain and presto: clear, clean drinking water. Unfortunately, for millions of people around the world, mostly in developing nations, it is far from this simple.
According to UNICEF and the World Health Organization, diarrhea kills more young children than AIDS, malaria, and the measles combined. Drinking unsafe water is a major cause of diarrheal diseases.
While in many regions the drinking water problem is complex and requires long-term solutions, one very effective immediate solution is LifeStraw.
LifeStraw is a plastic tube about one foot long and one inch in diameter. A person uses LifeStraw just like a regular straw. However, it contains a physical filtration system (no chemicals) that filters out 99.9999% of waterborne bacteria. LifeStraw is typically worn around a person’s neck (like a necklace) and lasts about a year. LifeStraw has won several awards, including the "Best Invention of 2005" from Time Magazine. It was used in the 2010 Haiti earthquake relief effort and in relief efforts for other natural disasters.
LifeStraw was developed and is manufactured by the company, Vestergaard Frandsen, which is based in Europe and guided by what they call “Humanitarian Entrepreneurship.” There are now a couple distributors in North America where you can purchase a LifeStraw for yourself to use, for example, while backpacking.
The Rotary Club of Fort Lauderdale ensures donations of LifeStraw get to where they are needed. The cost is only $6.50 per LifeStraw. How many of us have spent $4.00 (or more) just for a bottle of water at an entertainment venue – usually when there is free water available from a drinking fountain. So for less than the cost of two bottles of water at an entertainment venue, you can supply a child for about a year with clean, safe drinking water. Visit http://www.rotarywaterprojects.org/ for more information and to watch videos about LifeStraw. You can also search on “LifeStraw” at YouTube for additional informational videos.
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