Thirst-Aid 2009 Update:
We're delighted to introduce you to Khine the new TAM (Thirst-Aid Myanmar) Country Director!
Khine is a Myanmar citizen and speaks English, Burmese, and French fluently and has working knowledge of Thai, Japanese, and Spanish. She has ample experience in marketing as well as extensive knowledge of the Burmese culture and government. She is excited to put her talents and connections to use on behalf of Thirst-Aid and our goal of creating a successful country scale safe-water program!
She’s already begun working with Thirst-Aid part-time and will take over full-time in June, allowing CnC to make a brief trip back to the USA in July!
• Directed the largest Ceramic Water Filter (CWF) intervention in the
history of disaster relief, helping to bring sustainable safe drinking water to a
population of over 1/2 a million people.
• Helped establish six new independently owned CWF factories.
• The eight current CWF factories employ over 150 people.
• Promoted CWF sales relative to Cyclone Nargis exceeding US$ 1,200,000 with
gross expenditures related to CWFs in excess of US$ 2,000,000
• Developed the Thirst-Ed program and trained over 300 community
health educators in CWF specific safe-water and hygiene promotion.
• The Thirst-Ed program advocates to change the currency by which CWFs are
bought from pecuniary to education, giving the poorest of the poor an opportunity
to buy into a healthy life style.
• Provides free education, care and use brochures, and stickers to all CWF manufactures so that these materials will accompany all CWF units.
• Serves as Quality Assurance monitors for the entire CWF industry, providing free inspections for all NGOs and retailers purchasing CWFs.
- Also Curt has been invited to present the Thirst-Ed currency model at a WHO conference in Dublin.
- And we've begun an exciting water cart project which we'll update you on later this year.
Thirst-Aid Myanmar
"Thinking out of the Bottle"
