Olmec support funding to provide clean water for families in South America

People in South America are suffering from water-borne diseases take up about half of all the hospital beds in the world. And each year the diseases carried in water kill nearly two million people, mostly children under five years of age.

Olmec are delighted to have been asked for financial support for Sophie Dees and her colleague Lawrence Paine from Reality Solutions Limited. They will be travelling to both Columbia and Peru over the course of 3 weeks to assist in the Construction and Renovation of Housing, Clean Water Supplies and Medical Centres.

They wanted to take a little something with them to help, and so have been looking for support in funding the purchase of Lifestraws, which, at £25 each are small enough to squeeze in their luggage but will be given to a child or family in need of clean water, to tackle illness, bacteria and water borne diseases. The LifeStraw can filter up to 4,000 liters (1,000 gallons). This would mean, if you used the LifeStraw every day, for all of your drinking water, it would last up to 4 years.

Olmec wish Sophie and Lawrence good luck with both their fund raising and with their journey.