Projects that Promote Healthy Lives
Water Filters Purify Water for a Family
One of the leading causes of death in young children is dehydration and diarrhea from drinking dirty water with parasites and bacteria. A water filter saves lives by providing clean water in a family’s home. Miracles in Action has distributed over 3,200 water filters in homes and schools. Miracles in Action provides Sawyer water filters made by Sawyer, which are easily cleaned backwashing the contaminants from the filter membrane. Filters last up to 10 years and come with a 5-gallon plastic container with a spigot, which holds the filtered clean water. To sponsor a filter for a family is $45.
Clean Water Projects Improve Lives
Extreme poverty is defined as when every day is a struggle to survive. Impoverished people have no access to basic needs: water, food, and shelter. In rural indigenous villages, women and children must carry water from a spring to their home, walking miles each day carrying 4-gallon water jugs (34 lbs). We believe clean, safe drinking water is a basic human right. Miracles In Action sponsors gravity-fed water systems that bring a water pipe to each home, improving hygiene and quality of life.
Sponsoring Stoves
Save Trees, Lungs and Lives
Most Guatemalan Mayan families cook on open fires on dirt floors inside their homes. While this is the cultural norm, it presents many problems. Lack of proper ventilation causes many respiratory infections and high levels of carbon monoxide in their homes. Children are at high risk for being burned when playing or learning how to walk near these open fires. Additionally, open fires are an inefficient use of wood which contributes to the deforestation problem as well as creating back-breaking and time-consuming work to gather enough wood. New safe, vented stoves are designed to use less wood, resulting in less clear cutting of the rainforest. They vent smoke out of the house and the design prevents children from being seriously burned.