Life is precious. Water shouldn't be.
In Western Province, Kenya, women and girls spend long hours fetching dirty water and firewood to boil the water to make it safe to drink. Cholera, typhoid, and other waterborne disease threaten the lives and livelihoods of whole communities unlucky enough to have only dirty water to drink.
Vestergaard Frandsen distributed nearly 900,000 water filters across the province, but it wasn't charity, it was smart business. Watch what happens when four million Kenyans have access to clean water in their homes and how it impacts their lives, especially of women and girls.
Evan Abramson & Carmen Elsa/ 2011/ 23 min/ Water
FILM DESCRIPTION: The award-winning short film by Evan Abramson & Carmen Elsa Lopez brings to life the daily struggles experienced by millions of residents living in western Kenya without easy access to safe drinking water. But the film is also about hope. It showcases a unique new public health program providing the region with sustainable access to clean water. The film chronicles the program start-up, when nearly 880,000 water filters were distributed for free to almost all homes in the region. It shows how this program’s unique carbon financing model ensures sustainability at no cost to residents, governmental agencies or donor groups.