Africa

Africa @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb0xf3mRbJM - BioSand Water Filter Video (How it Works)

High Flying Champs African Proposal

We propose to help the African people, specifically the people of Kenya, with their water problems. We are going to give them Bio Sand water filters so that they may have clean drinking and bathing water that is uncontaminated by their livestock. We will fundraise this money by enlisting the help of the Vacation Bible School children of the state of Iowa. We hope that they will contribute enough money to buy enough water filters five villages. We will give each village two large water filters. With clean water, these people will take a step towards ending their poverty because with clean water, less people will be chronically sick and less children will die of cholera, malaria in the water, tapeworms, Guinea Worm disease, river blindness, botulism, E. coli, and Typhoid fever. We understand the use of geographic tools to locate and analyze information about people, places, and problems, therefore we understand how contaminated water has affected these people and pushed them further into poverty. We also understand how human actions modify the environment and how the environment affects humans, therefore the water filters will not harm any of the villages’ environment and ecosystem and they will not take any of the farmland that these people depend on. We will include a budget on the slide show that we are making. We will also make a flyer to hand out to people and we will include a video in our slideshow to help further your understanding.