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Simple Solution, Life-Changing Result

Village volunteers in Northern Thailand work together to construct a 300-liter biosand water filter — a process that they learned to build from ECHO. 
“You trained us well and now we are blessing many people near the Myanmar border!”

While Thailand is a peaceful country, neighboring regions have been challenged by civil war and violence. Internally displaced people live in long-term camps without access to many basic sanitation options. The ECHO Asia team realized that one of the most effective ways they could serve those struggling with contaminated drinking water was to teach and multiply the knowledge of simple biosand water filters. 

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!”

From learning to doing, ECHO trainers use hands-on learning strategies to teach the theory and practice of constructing a biosand water filter. 

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. 

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From David Erickson, President/CEO

Togetherness…partnership….mutuality. These were the words that went through my mind as I previewed this issue ofECHO News. Nearly every story reflects the reality that the work and witness of ECHO has a built-in mutuality— a mutuality that confers strength, hope, and impact.
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Simple Solution, Life-Changing Result

The ECHO Asia team realized that one of the most effective ways they could serve those struggling with contaminated drinking water was to teach and multiply the knowledge of simple biosand water filters.

From David Erickson, President/CEO

Togetherness…partnership….mutuality. These were the words that went through my mind as I previewed this issue ofECHO News. Nearly every story reflects the reality that the work and witness of ECHO has a built-in mutuality— a mutuality that confers strength, hope, and impact.

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