Sanitized and reusable, these family-sized bottles are an affordable, logical method to distribute pure, safe drinking water. The H2OpenDoors project mentors the women’s water council on good governance of their new water economy.
We’re helping the island to become less vulnerable by working to build community water purification off-the- grid. As part of a strategic initiative that includes small solar farms, we’ve started with six small towns, each over 3000 residents. When the next big weather event happens, these towns will be immune from island-wide outages.
Umar Omar, Founder of Safari Doctors on Lamu, Kenya, knows the value of water when it comes to optimal health. The WHO reports that half of the hospital beds in the world are occupied by patients with waterborne diseases. This CNN Hero and UN person of the Year has established a bottling enterprise with the guidance of H2OpenDoors to serve the Kenyan archipelago and the Somalian coast.
