Tuesday, March 03, 2009
Pictures of Latest Training Event
The new filter comes out very easily with Crisco as a lubricant inside the mold!
Bill and Eric are happy with the results.
Participants in the February 7, 2009 Training Event learned about sanitation, hygiene, and the world's clean water situation in the morning class, and then built an actual filter in the afternoon.
Mike and Barbara Webb - Cambodia - May 2009
We are excited to inform you that we are seeing fruit from our October ‘08 trip to Cambodia! One of our contacts, the Shanti Volunteer Association, has invited us to come back to Phnom Penh in May ‘09 to train parents, teachers, and other volunteers to build BioSand water filters. This organization has built nearly 1000 schools throughout the country. After presenting our mission in October, and after some research on their part, they have decided to implement this technology in all their schools.
This will be a significant labor for the two of us, and a huge opportunity to share the Gospel to hundreds of Cambodians. Shanti (SVA) has already started training the teachers and parents in sanitation and hygiene issues associated with the filter, and we will be providing molds and construction techniques during the month. We will leave in late April, and come back to Colorado when the project looks like it is well underway. This means we could stay several weeks and be traveling to many provinces.
Please pray for us, and if the Lord tells you, we would greatly appreciate your financial support as well. Our tickets will be around $1200 each, and accommodations will be about $15 per night. Translators are $25 per day, and we will need them! Your partnership will make a huge difference in the country of Cambodia.
This will be a significant labor for the two of us, and a huge opportunity to share the Gospel to hundreds of Cambodians. Shanti (SVA) has already started training the teachers and parents in sanitation and hygiene issues associated with the filter, and we will be providing molds and construction techniques during the month. We will leave in late April, and come back to Colorado when the project looks like it is well underway. This means we could stay several weeks and be traveling to many provinces.
Please pray for us, and if the Lord tells you, we would greatly appreciate your financial support as well. Our tickets will be around $1200 each, and accommodations will be about $15 per night. Translators are $25 per day, and we will need them! Your partnership will make a huge difference in the country of Cambodia.
Greeley Training Event a Big Success
The Training Event on February 7 proved to be lots of fun, with a diverse group of folks some of whom are working on a Masters Degree project in Africa this summer.
Tanisha White-Phan, Sanghamitra Chalteryee, Aseel Anton and Becky Fedak, along with their professor Rick Turley from CSU, got excited about using the BioSand Filter technology as the main focus of their project.
Other class members, andy Runyon and Jonathan Ahlschwede, were leaving soon for Africa to assess the possibilities of the BioSand Filter being used in the Central part of the continent.
Other class members got right into the project of making a filter. Since the weather was chilly, the first filter stuck in the mold and had to be broken to be removed. One of the participants suggested using Crisco to prepare the inside of the mold, and the next one came out perfectly, like a cookie out of the oven.
Always learning, always experimenting on new techniques, the members of Cup of Hope International are continually working to improve their skills, as we send workers to implement businesses and further training around the world.
Tanisha White-Phan, Sanghamitra Chalteryee, Aseel Anton and Becky Fedak, along with their professor Rick Turley from CSU, got excited about using the BioSand Filter technology as the main focus of their project.
Other class members, andy Runyon and Jonathan Ahlschwede, were leaving soon for Africa to assess the possibilities of the BioSand Filter being used in the Central part of the continent.
Other class members got right into the project of making a filter. Since the weather was chilly, the first filter stuck in the mold and had to be broken to be removed. One of the participants suggested using Crisco to prepare the inside of the mold, and the next one came out perfectly, like a cookie out of the oven.
Always learning, always experimenting on new techniques, the members of Cup of Hope International are continually working to improve their skills, as we send workers to implement businesses and further training around the world.
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