Rotarians have sent out vital aid to help relieve the cholera epidemic which is currently threatening thousands of families in Zimbawbe.
A consignment of 100 Water Survival Boxes have been sent out to Zimbawbe to give families at risk of the cholera epidemic the means of purifying water.
The shipment forms part of a joint operation with Oxfam, whose representative in Harare took responsibility for ensuring the boxes were distributed to families most at risk.
World Water Works, founded two years ago by The Rotary Club of Chelwood Bridge Club, provides a supply of safe drinking-water and other vital survival items to people in the stranglehold of disease and poverty caused by disasters which destroy their homes and possessions and leave them without safe water and sanitation.
Chairman Hugo Pike has made an urgent appeal for donations and support of the scheme: “Our latest consignments to Zimbabwe and Gaza have left stocks very low and we urgently need extra funding to cater for future disasters.
The Rotary emergency box charity delivers humanitarian aid in the form of water filtration kits and essential survival items within days of natural or man-made disaster. Items include a container to collect water, cooking utensils, anti-septic spray, cotton materials and needles and thread to make clothes, basic tools, tarpaulin and cable ties to make simple shelter.
For details on how you can help, visit www.worldwaterworks.org.
16/04/09
