Still limited by COVID protocols, the ECHO Asia team conducted a workshop that taught the principles and practices that participants would need to know to build their own 300-liter affordable biosand water filters. Again, the technology is the mechanism, but the real impact is evident in the lives of the people. Shortly after the training concluded, ECHO Asia trainers received an email with a simple message: “You trained us well and now we are blessing many people near the Myanmar border!”
One man, trained at ECHO’s small farm resource center in Chiang Mai, returned home and gathered men from his village. Together they constructed a 300-liter water filtration system from locally available resources and installed it in a few days. Through their work, a brand-new biosand water filter is providing clean water to a rural village in northern Thailand for villagers and refugees alike.
This is the power of the ECHO effect. Your support helps to multiply one training into many other trainings — through those we train sharing what they learned — and many people benefit.
