Our Mission
TMA is a nonprofit corporation founded in 2005 to help impoverished villagers of the Thane District of India achieve a better way of life. Our major project there is a water purification program that provides the means for obtaining clean drinking water plus a knowledge of hygiene and sanitation. Our goal is to provide a Biosand water filter to every villager in this area who wants one. An increase in pure drinking water means a decrease in waterborne diseases. Your donation of $25 will buy one filter and better health for a family of 10 for many years. Click on "DONATE NOW" to support us in this effort.
HOW Bio-Sand Water Filters are improving the Lives of 400 families in Maharashtra, India.......
News from Jeanetta:
A few weeks ago, I tagged along with Pervez Kazi as he interviewed twenty families within Nimboli village who had received SNET Bio Sand Water-filters nearly a year ago. The overall response was extreme satisfaction with how the water filter not only improved the families' health, but also improved the taste of their daily drinking water.
Prior to receiving the SNET water filter, they walked to the end of their street where there is a government installed well. Unfortunately, the engineers located it directly in the path of a stagnant water drainage system. Hence, the water is most often dirty. Secondarily, the well water is hot because Nimboli is situated amidst geo thermal activity. Over and over, we heard the recipients of the SNET water filter say they "liked how the water was clean and cool." Many of them commented that they now bring their own filtered water with them to work, to school, and on any outings away from the home. They don't believe they can get such cool clean water anywhere else, except to pay for bottled water.
The major sentiment of the women interviewed was relief in seeing their families healthy. Many families reported an almost total disappearance of illnesses caused by water born organisms, such as diarrhea, cholera, skin infections. Common colds and flu had lessened, as well.
What was surprising was to learn how often the recipients cleaned their filter. Some followed their instructions and cleaned them monthly. But some householders could taste the difference in the water after being cleaned and so cleaned the filter more often. The majority cleaned about every week or every other week, but one lady literally cleaned hers daily because she could taste the difference. Others cleaned theirs every few days.
Almost all of the filters were situated in a prominent place in the family's home, be it in the kitchen, or on the back porch. Most people were very emphatic about the rewards of the water filer and expressed their deep appreciation for the improvement in the quality of their lives.
Of the twenty families we visited, only one person believed the filter to be malfunctioning even though she cleaned it. Another man said his fell over ten days prior, but the amount of plant growth that had grown up onto it showed that it had probably not been used for over a month. He said he was not strong enough to put the filter up right and would need SNET's help to get it functioning again. Both of these families were reported to the installer for maintenance.
Every week I meet people on the streets of surrounding areas who yet don't have their own SNET water filter. I feel sad to tell them that we don't quite have enough money yet to deliver water filters to their village. They hear of neighbors who do have one, and wish to receive the life changing benefits for their own family. I wish we could provide all the families here in the Tansa Valley with their own water filter.
Some of the other villages rely on river water for their household supply. This is contaminated by human and animal excrement up stream and is extremely dangerous to their health. Now some of those families have the benefit of cleaning the water with SNET water filter.
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Keep up the great work guys!
mtgentry 1 year ago