When I first saw this I was actually floored. What a genius idea this is!
SoZo® Water for Life is on a mission to provide children, in the highest-need areas around the world, with access to safe and clean drinking water. In cooperation with World Vision, SoZo® is making clean drinking water possible for people who live in places where it is not, otherwise, available.
World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization and one of the largest development and relief organizations dedicated to working with children, families and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice.
One solution is a drinking straw with a triple filtration system that will filter drinking water for one child for an entire year. The SoZo® Straw filters pollutants that cause typhoid, cholera, dysentery and other life-threatening diseases. Our goal is to distribute one million straws over the course of the next five years.
Water-borne illnesses are simply a fact of life for these children and adults. Five million people die every year of water-related illnesses. In fact, one child under the age of 14 dies every 15 seconds. Access to safe drinking water is critical to good health and survival.
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