Our Process
Our process
- Listen and partner
Every partnership starts with relationship. We get to know each community and the local leaders who serve it, then build a plan together that fits.
- Train local leaders
Local leaders go through our water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) training to learn how to set up, use and care for the filters, and how to teach families to do the same.
- Families receive filters
Local leaders choose the families and deliver each filter with hands-on training, so families see that the help comes from their own community.
- Follow up in person
We track every filter with GIS mapping, but only after the family agrees and signs their consent in our app. Local leaders visit regularly to make sure filters keep working and relationships keep growing.
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Train local leaders
Local leaders go through our WASH training to learn how to set up, use and care for the filters, and how to teach families to do the same.
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Families receive filters
Local leaders choose the families and deliver each filter with hands-on training, so families see that the help comes from their own community.
Follow up in person
We track every filter with GIS mapping, but only after the family agrees and signs their consent in our app. Local leaders visit regularly to make sure filters keep working and relationships keep growing.
Provide clean water to a family
Our Solution
A practical tool for clean water at home
We give families a Sawyer bucket filter, a simple gravity-fed system that turns the water they already have into clean drinking water.
- Gravity-powered.
- Maintained through cleaning and care.
- Designed for long-term use.
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Backed By Scientists
Learning through science and follow-up
Our partnership with Aquora Research and Consulting helps us understand water quality and evaluate program results.
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Three ways we provide clean water
Two ways we provide clean water
Every filter reaches a family through one of two models. Most of our work happens through long-term community partnerships.
Most of our work
Community-led water programs
Long-term partnerships with trusted local leaders: household filters, WASH training and in-person follow-up, community by community.
Local partnerships also help reach remote communities, including the Sierra Madre in Mexico and La Mosquitia in Honduras.
Disaster water response
When an earthquake, hurricane or other disaster damages water systems, we respond where trusted local partners invite us or where communities we already serve have been affected, providing household filters until local water systems recover.
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From the field
Cynthia Castro El Salvador Coordinator
From the field
“It was amazing to see how excited the kids were to help us assemble the water filters, since all of them were dealing with stomach flu-like symptoms due to the contamination in their drinking water. The pure joy on the kids’ faces when they saw clean drinking water coming out from the filter was truly priceless.”
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