We fund the system, work with local water-treatment specialists to install it, have the water tested, and then keep paying for the servicing. That last part is what makes it work, and it is the part most people forget.
Children in three SOS programmes drink water from purification systems the Foundation has provided — in Crete, in Vari outside Athens, and at an SOS children's home.
“Thank you very much for your kind donation for the water purification systems, installed in the Village's homes and in the office. This has helped us to have access to quality, pure water — both the children at homes and the workers.”
This village has no system at all. They buy bottled water, case after case, week after week, for children who should simply be able to fill a glass from the tap. They have asked us for help.
What is missing is the money — for the equipment, and for the servicing that has to follow it every year afterwards.
We have an agreement with The Smile of the Child, one of Greece's best-known children's charities, to bring the same clean drinking water to children in their care.
The start was postponed, and the project will resume as funding allows. We would rather say that plainly than let an agreement look like an installation.
Both are conversations, not installations. We will say so until they are not.
The need for water children can trust did not stay in Greece, and neither will we. We are working with SOS Children's Villages in the United States, beginning in Florida, and talking to children's homes and shelters closer to our office in New Jersey.
If you run a children's home, a shelter or a care facility and your drinking water should be better than it is, we would like to hear from you. There is no catch and no cost to asking.
A filter nobody maintains quietly stops protecting anyone. Your gift pays for both — the equipment, and the years of servicing that follow.
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