Primo Filters International envisions a world where the people are empowered through education and access to an economical water filtration device. We will focus our efforts to create sustainability by targeting education and understanding surrounding clean water.
The water filter can change the lives of many, creating sustainability through proper use and understanding. Clean water is not only a necessity, but it is a resource entitled by everyone throughout the world. These efforts, with the help of all levels of government, community officials as well as the citizens themselves is a collaboration of efforts to create and sustain clean water accessibility. Water for the world can and will empower the people.
We must look further in order to understand that our social responsibility to those who lack access to clean water is not a quick fix. There are many working parts that need addressed, if sustainability is going to be achieved.
Closing the circle means providing clean water to not only individual households, but schools and nearby clinics. Primo Filters International has created the circle of clean water sustainability and an awareness that clean water to individual homes is not enough, but must also include multiple accesses that the children and adults drink from. We are building a model of success and addressing the many broken and complex systems associated with access to clean drinking water.
Coupled with our filters, is a small team of people that will travel to remote villages and towns, providing education on the use and impact of clean water on health, decrease in sickness and hygiene. Although each village is different, we believe that if we teach the women how to use the filters and the effects clean water will have on the health of their children, we can then build a model of success. Our education program is a two-prong approach with initial visit being 4 days of education and 2 follow-up visits during the initial distribution. We will perform a 4-month follow-up with the distributing organization, Primo Filters International and if available, a designated and trained person on the ground monitoring the filters use and effectiveness. We want to understand the impact of using the filters and having access to clean water. By inspecting what we expect, we will learn what works and how we need to modify our program.
This approach of directly working with the families is unique and creates a more sustainable model allowing us to see and feel the impact and know that a difference is being made.
To date, we have currently provided clean water to over 10,000 people and have distributed filters in Ethiopia, Panama, Rwanda and Peru.
