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Welcome to the Health, Pure Water and Literacy for Cambodia Website

Our mission is to bring clean, disease free water together with literacy and hygiene education to empower rural Cambodian families thereby reducing infant mortality and improving their capacity for livelihood in a sustainable manner.

Thirty-three percent of the population of Cambodia is under the age of 15. Travelling through Cambodia, visitors are struck by the number of children they see all around them.  They are the future of Cambodia.

Unfortunately, 14% of these children don’t live to be 5 years old.  Dirty, disease-ridden drinking water causes about 20% of the deaths in children under 5 years old and contributes to serious malnutrition in most of the others. In 1993, Dr David Manz at the University of Calgary took notice of the need for clean water worldwide and developed a simple, inexpensive water filter that could be installed in villages, homes, and schools.  Dirty water goes in the top; clean water comes out the bottom.

Health, Pure Water and Literacy for Cambodia takes a holistic approach to saving and bettering the lives of thousands of children in rural Cambodia.  We have adopted this simple principle, provide effective, low tech, easy to maintain, household water filters; combined with literacy, health and hygiene education for young mothers. This is helping to break the cycle of disease and poverty. 

We invite you to learn more about our project by exploring our website.  We are especially proud of our photos of the precious children of Cambodia that need our help the most.   

You can make a difference with a donation or by purchasing a filter for a family or village. The smallest contribution can make a tremendous difference in the lives of a whole generation of children.  Contact us today at info@waterforcambodia.org for more information.

To join our BUY-A-FILTER program or to donate, please select the "You can help" option on our menu above or click on the caption below the picture on the right.