2007:  Thirst-Aid is partnering with UNICEF to develop the Thirst-Aid education template. Based on the concept that safe-water programs are more likely to be sustained when participants also become stakeholders, the Thirst-Aid template promotes education and knowledge as investment capital.

2006 A collaborative effort between Myanmar’s Community Development Association (CDA), UNICEF, the Asia Transpacific Foundation (ATF) and the Ttocirrod Foundation/Thirst-Aid Happy Family Water Systems premieres as the countries first in-country owned and run ceramic filter facility.  Based on the same principals as the VIP program, CDA employs locals to manufacture filters for community distribution through larger public health related NGO’s.
2003/2006 The Vocational Incentive Program in Thailand began as a vocational training project and turned into a successful ceramic water filter production facility. We combined local materials, simple, appropriate technology, ingenuity and a great local crew.

Each VIP filter is capable of lasting many years and producing enough water to satisfy the daily needs of a family of 8 or 20 children during a school day.

2005 The Vocational Incentive Program sent over 6000 water filters to the tsunami victims in Southern Thailand.  Working with medical organizations the VIP crew not only distributed water filters but were able to provide education and literature to the recipients.  Over 36,000 people now have the knowledge and means to make their drinking water safe.
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2009:   Thirst-Aid begins taking its programs country scale in Myanmar.  Utilizing the private sector to create a viable market for CWFs
Thirst-Aid focuses on quality control, education and long term sustainable behavior change.

2008:  Thirst-Aid responds to Cyclone Nargis, increasing its filter production capacity and starting a new factory in Pathein to meet the increase in demand.  Works across the board with INGOs, local NGOs, and private sector groups to create a comprehensive Water, Sanitation, Hygiene response to Nargis.
2010: 
and the Water Vendor Project
took off like a rocket propelled by H2O2!
Thirst-Aid utilizes Myanmar’s traditional water vendors to help bring purified water to some of the country’s poorest residents.  By providing water vendors with more hygienic carts and teaching them how to disinfect raw water by using hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), thousands of Myanmar’s poorest now have affordable access to safer water every day.
Additionally, Thirst-Aid promotes income generation by providing the improved water carts and H2O2 to qualified water vendors through a franchise agreement.  Traditionally, water vendors had to rent their water carts on a weekly basis, perpetuating a cycle of poverty.  Through Thirst-Aid, water carts are financed on a lease-to-own basis with the H2O2 costs included in the monthly payments.  Water vendors that maintain neat appearance, work to promote improved hygiene behavior among clientele and consistently disinfect their water with H2O2 are rewarded by reduced payments.