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More SkyHydrants in Bhutan

During the review visit to Bhutan in early March Disaster Aid Australia CEO Brian was also able to participate in two SkyHydrant installations.

The first location at Tashitang Middle Secondary School was sponsored by Frankston High School Interact Club.

The following picture shows the final assembly of the SkyHydrant in front of the new building that had already been prepared.

Following the completion an important event is the first drink from the new installation.

This installation will be protecting the health of over 800 pupils and staff.

A second installation was completed at Sarpang Middle Secondary School.

Building, ready for SkyHydrant installation

This installation was sponsored by the Rotary Club of Maroondah.

This unit, pictured above with the new operator and DAA CEO Brian, will be protecting 900 pupils and 75 staff.

The sponsorship cost for each student that is protected for a full year is less than $1.

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The Importance of Operators

Phuentsholing Primary School

Disaster Aid Australia CEO Brian Ashworth is currently in Bhutan reviewing the SkyHydrant installations completed in the last few years.

Gedu High School

This is an important part of the ‘Safe Water for Every Child’ project ensuring the SkyHydrants are a sustainable long term solution to unsafe water.

The Operators role, in being diligent in carrying out the daily cleaning, is vital in ensuring the maximum life of the first filter membrane.

Phuentsholing High School

To help motivate operators Brian always makes sure he gets a photograph with the operator and makes sure they understand that the role makes them one of the most important people in the school.

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Busy SkyHydrant Week

This week has been busy for shipping SkyHydrants overseas.

Timor Leste

DAA Chair, Peter Faulkner, loading five SkyHydrants and two boxes of Chemicals.

These are off to Timor Leste, transported to our Rotary friends “Donations In Kind”, who will put them in one of their regular container shipmentsto Dili.

Once in Dili they will be installed by our partner Rotary Projects Timor Leste East.

Bhutan

Six units are also being shipped to Bhutan for our ongoing work in that country.

in addition these two units will be leaving for Bhutan on Saturday.

They will be travelling with DAA volunteer Brian Ashworth as his ‘checked baggage’ to save on shipping costs.

Brian will be in Bhutan to carry out a review of installations carried out as part of the Bhutan 2020 project.

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Charity donations of $2 or more to Disaster Aid Australia are tax-deductible in Australia.

Helping Partners

A key component of Disaster Aid Australia’s ‘Safe Water for Every Child’ program is working with partners.

Safe Water for Every Child Myanmar

This organisation helps the Karen people who live in Myanmar close to the border with Thailand.

The Karen people are a minority in Myanmar that have been discriminated against and have been subject to attacks from the ruling military junta.

Safe Water for Every Child Myanmar was started by friends of the Karen refugees who have settled in the Nhill community in Western Victoria.

Vanuatu Safe Water

Friends of tempoary migrant workers in the agricultural industry in Tasmania decided they would like to assist improve the living standards of the worker’s home communities.

This is being achieved by arranging for workers to return to their communities at the end of their contracts with a SkyHydrant to be gifted to the community.

Villager enjoying safe water
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