2 billion people around the world are without access to safely managed drinking water services.

26% of the world's population doesn't have access to safe drinking water and 46% lack access to basic sanitation. The U.N. World Water Development Report 2023 painted a stark picture of the huge gap that needs to be filled to meet U.N. Sustainable Development Goal #6

People living in Suriname's interior - the 80% of the country's land area that is not on the coast - face the most extreme poverty in the country and have the least access to essential infrastructure. These people make up 10% of Suriname's population and are mainly indigenous peoples or Maroons (the descendants of escaped African slaves).

There is so much water that the interior often experiences floods - disasters that can destroy people's livelihood and health - contaminating drinking water sources, ruining crops and agricultural land, and killing and sickening many people.

The challenge for families in the interior is not so much lack of access to water, but lack of access to water that will not destroy their health. 55.2% of interior familes do not have access to improved sources of drinking water.

We are looking now at introducing the Swahili Stonecroft Bible Study as part of this progamme so as the ladies from East Africa arrive to collect their Drop of Hope well water to be filtered in the BioSand filtration system we are able to share with them the Good News using this excellent material.

This programme can be duplicated in Malawi as an outreach, empowerment arm of the Africa Training Bible School using the Stonecroft Trinity Series already translated into Chichewa for the ladies of Malawi that visit our Drop of Hope projects in Malawi.

Finally the translation in French is complete and we can now introduce this programme into DR Congo and Haiti. Both countries in desperate need of clean water and the Living Water.

Arriving with an empty container returning home not only with water but clean filtered water and refreshed by the Word of God

Special thanks to Stonecroft Ministries for allowing us to translate this material, we will be working on other studies over the years to expand this ministry into Mozambique and other African countries.

Phase #1 will be to establish a bore-hole following a geological survey to confirm water availability. Before commencing drilling, a bore-hole needs a drilling permit and an environmental report. Once drilled, the bore-hole must be lined with steel casing to stop the bore-hole collapsing and to screen out the large sand particles from entering the pump.

Tanks:
Solar only produces water when it is sunny or bright. To match supply to demand, it is usual to add water tanks. In this case, 2 tanks were added, both 5000L each. The top tank is used to gravity feed water to the school and the bottom tank supplies water to the community taps. If both tanks are empty, it will take about 1 day of sunlight to fill them.

The Intech Energy Containers is a solution to deliver energy to rural areas. Each container is equipped with a photovoltaic system and a lithium-ion battery backup. Every system comprises a monitoring system which allows the customers but also Intech ´s engineers to access the data online.

All Intech Energy Containers are pre- assembled, pre-tested and pre-configured before shipment which ensures a fast and cost-efficient implementation.This will not only power the pump but provide a flood light sports playing field in Phase #3

24 BioSand Filters will be positoned next to the Storage Tanks, this BioSand shed will also provide a good catchement area to irrigate the Kitchen Garden to be established next to this area.

Every two hours 12 women will be allowed to come and filter the well water, while they are waiting for the filtration to be complete they will take part in the Drop of Hope,'Living Water Bible Club'.

Enabling us to hold a minimum of four Bible Clubs with two shifts of Stonecroft Guides.

From 9.00 -13.00 and13.00 - 17.00

48 women receiving clean water while learning about the Living Water.

A night shift will be employed to do the same thing during the night collecting 48 bottles of clean filtered water to be delived to the local schools, enabling us to get into the schools with our children's curriculum.

This Living Water Bible Club will be held once a week and the other 6 days the ladies will have a variety of other options that they can do while they wait for the hour for the water to filter

(Filtration can sometimes take an hour and a half, be prepared to give that time)

• Spend time in the BioSand Production Site
• Helping in the Organic Kitchen Garden
• Work for an hour or more in the Moringa Estate
• Help out for an hour in the Moringa Processing Plant

• Help out in the 'Kisses from Heaven' kitchen preparing food for the children in the Power Club
• Assist the children's Ministers in the Power Clubs

• Work for an hour or more in our African Goshen Agro Glamping Mission Resorts or our African Lakeside Glamping Mission Resort. These resorts will house Missionaries' coming to Africa for a wonderful Mission Holiday experience.

• Get involved in the Youth Discipleship Training evening Sports After School Youth Evangelical Bible Club
• Assist the children that come to do their homework under the floodlights.

The BSF is a household water filter that makes dirty water safe to drink. This particular type of filter is an adaptation of the traditional slow sand filter, which has been used for community water treatment for almost 200 years.

The BSF is smaller and adapted for intermittent use, making it most suitable for households, typically around five people. In the case of a school it should serve 10 to 15 children for their time at school.

A bank of BSF's would need to be installed to serve the children's needs

Optional: Download English Introduction to the BioSand Filter video