• Donations fund training materials for Safe Water Educators(SWE), water testing kits, chlorine tablets to teach proper point-of-use purification, school safe water and hygiene stations, safe water storage containers, public service announcements, visual aids for group presentations, household survey assessments, and more.
• At the beginning of each project, we typically send a small group of volunteers from the U.S. to facilitate the SWE training. These volunteers pay their own way and donate their time.
• A typical project area will protect about 1,000 families (about 5,000 people) and costs about $14,000 over the course of the three-year project. How effective is the BWF methodology?
• 97% of the households that follow the program show no risk of water-borne disease in their household water supplies (1 ) year after the program starts.
• A 90-95% reduction in both student school and adult workdays lost due to waterborne disease is reported after one year.
• Over 70% of households that go through the program continue to treat their water (1) year later. We are constantly looking for ways to increase this behavioral change.