CLEAN water is an issue in remote rural areas around the world and the Rotary e-Club of NextGen recently received a very generous donation from Rob and Deborah Shackleford, of 640 PAANY self-filtering water bottles.
In July 2023 Rotary e-club NextGen members sent a 20 foot container to Cameroon, in Central Africa.
This container provided the community built hospital, The Essential Health For All Foundation, with repurposed hospital equipment.
The project was such a success that the Rotary e-Club of NextGen are now sponsoring a 40-foot-high top container being packed by the organisation Someone Who Cares, ready to leave in November.
The project in Cameroon is run by Rotarians Ged Williams and Daniel Ntoh who are very excited about the inclusion of the PAANY water bottles in the next container.
“These health assisting water bottles will be put to great use in Cameroon,” said Ged.
“The special self filtering water bottles can collect water from a river and act as a portable, personal micro-filter.”
The PAANY is highly effective at removing germs that commonly cause sickness. That means up to 99.9999% of protozoa and bacteria such as Giardia lamblia (Beaver Fever), Cryptosporidium parvum and Campylobacter are mostly eliminated.
Ged said the container will also include items to support education, a nursing school and agricultural studies in addition to medical equipment.
“This will greatly improve the health service delivery and conditions to remote rural communities in Cameroon.”
In the 18 months since the hospital has been in operation, it has seen thousands of patients and delivered over four hundred babies, provided in excess of two thousand immunisation courses and treated malaria, typhoid, sepsis and many more conditions.
Over fifty percent of presentations and admissions to Cameroon’s The Essential Health For All Foundation are children under the age of fifteen.
