Alys Allardyce - RC Ripon - Aquaboxes and Aqua-Filters

Wed, Mar 27th 2019 at 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Barrie Birch had organised for Alys from the Rotary Charity Aquabox to tell us more about the work of the charity. ------ Speaker Finder Tony Ashton, Visitors Host, Grace and Banners John Waterhouse, Cash Desk Derek O'Hearne

An Aquabox

Aquabox is a community project set up and managed by the Rotary Club of Wirksworth in Derbyshire to provide safe drinking water, through the use of filtration units, and humanitarian aid to crisis zones around the world. Since its formation in 1992, Aquabox has distributed more than 110,000 boxes to over 50 countries in response to natural and man-made disasters, helping hundreds of thousands of people in the process. 

As wA Family Water Filterell as a water-filtration unit, each Aquabox contains more than 70 humanitarian aid items, including cooking utensils, hygiene equipment, tools, shelter materials, baby and children's clothing and educational items including: -

• Shelter Materials & Tools
• Blankets and sheets
• Cooking Utensils
• Personal Hygiene Items
• Baby & Children’s Clothing
• Educational Items
• Children’s Toys

Contents of an Aquabox

For more information see the Aquabox web site www.aquabox.org

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