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No More Stomachaches

Kantida drinks safe water for the first time

Kantida and her family live in a remote village in Thailand that suffers a critical shortage of clean water. Each day, Kantida collected contaminated water from the community well, knowing that drinking it would make her stomach hurt. And when the well was dry, she would collect water from an equally contaminated stream.

“We would boil the water first, then use a piece of cloth as a filter,” Kantida explains. “It was more difficult to filter the water in the rainy season, when it gets very muddy. But we had no choice."

It was heartbreaking for Sukanya, Kantida’s mother, to see her children suffer from drinking the inadequately filtered water. “It’s common for people here to have ongoing health issues and intestinal parasites,” she says.

Aside from waterborne illnesses, the lack of clean water impacted hygiene practices, increasing the spread of viruses such as COVID-19. “We had a drought this year, making the recommended hygiene and sanitation measures impossible,” says Sukanya.

This in-home filter will provide Kantida's

family with clean drinking water for many

years.

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Although Thailand, as a whole, has achieved access to improved drinking water for about 96% of the population, many rural communities, such as Kantida’s village, still lack that access.

Thankfully, because of gifts like yours to WaSH interventions, Kantida’s Compassion center recently distributed in-home water filters to the families of its 315 registered children. The simple filtration system is highly effective and is designed to last several years.

“I am so grateful that Compassion helped my family with a water filter,” says Kantida. “For the first time, I don’t feel sick after drinking water.” She adds, “I will take good care of the water filter so that we can use it for a long time.”

In 2020 you helped provide …

Sanitary toilets and washrooms at Compassion centers

Safe-water systems for children and families

Hygiene education for more than 2 million Compassionassisted children