A new system designed by Israeli students, who worked with the community in an Ethiopian village, utilizes rain water to provide clean, safe water for a school. For the first time, the 600 kids there can safely drink and wash during the school day.
We’ve all heard about Doctors Without Borders. But who knew there was an organization called Engineers Without Borders?! The engineers are apparently mostly engineering students, under the guidance of professors and professional engineers, who work with communities in the developing world to provide essential infrastructure for such basics as clean water, sewage, etc.
In the realm of “a good deed…leads to others”, Israel has a charity named SACH: Save a Child’s Heart. SACH brings children from the developing world to Israel for (free) life-saving heart surgery. One such boy came from the Ethiopian village of Meskele Cristos. When the SACH volunteers visited the boy and his family after his recovery, they discovered that the village had very few water sources, and there was no running water at the school.