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Foundation SaWaH Safe Water and Health

Mantijn van Leeuwen Oda van Oppen

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Safe Water and Health

Foundation SaWaH • Originated from DSM Water4life project and Foundation • Focus on Indonesia • Water, Sanitation and Health • Founded January 2007 • Supported by Rotary, Oxfam Novib

We support local NGO’s in Indonesia to setup a small sustainable local business for production, distribution and sale of household water filters, based on ceramic filter technology. By doing so we create a sustainable local infrastructure that provides access to safe drinking water. This program is supported by another program in which we help local communities to build rain water harvesting installations. This provides them with access to water.

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Building Rain Water Harvesting tanks

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• People build the tanks themselves • Construction design provided by Yayasan Harapan Sumba • Construction materials are sponsored by SaWaH

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Our water filter technology

• We use a commercially available ceramic filter cartridge from Ceramic Stefani (Brazil) • This cartridge has been on the market for years and 4 M units are sold each year in Brazil • Performance has been tested and verified by Falcão Bauer Quality Institute (Brazil), Curtin University (Australia), J&HS Pattinson (UK) and ARL Florida (USA) • Cartridge has a log4 performance for bacteria

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Our water filter technology

• We produce a local copy of a traditional water filter pot • Pottery is available on Sumba • Local trade and employment is thus provided • Ceramica Stefani (Brazil) is a partner in our projects

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Yayasan Harapan Sumba (project Hope Sumba)

• Yayasan Harapan Sumba is our local partner • This Foundation was founded by Ann McCue when she settled on Sumba and currently employs 10 persons

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