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Disaster Aid Australia and Disaster Aid Canada are supporting our closest partner Disaster Aid Europe in responding to the Turkiye-Syria Earthquake.

With strong links through Rotary Districts they have been able to idntify the key items needed in the devasted areas.

The affected clubs particularly asked for:

Personal Hygiene packs.

Family sized water filters

In addition sleeping bags and warm clothing wer requested.

The following photograph shows a trailer full of relief supplies handed over to the Turkiye ambassador in Prague with the onward transport being arranged by the Turkiye Government.

If you would like to help Disaster Aid Australia continue to respond to this, and other humanitarian disasters, click on the link below;

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Charity donations of $2 or more to Disaster Aid Australia are tax-deductible in Australia.

A day to think about the millions round the world who don’t have access to safe drinking water,

We are asking people to help us raise funds in March so more chidren can get access to safe drinking water by avoiding bottled water.

To see the difference our SkyHydrants have made to children in Bhutan schools you can watch this video.

It is not too late to sign up for the challenge at this link: DAA WATER CHALLENGE

Although a lot of the ‘Safe Water for Every Child‘ iinstallations are sponsored that doesn’t mean they are all sponsored!

Every year several units are financed from people making ‘General Donations’ to Disaster Aid Australia.

If you have made any donation to Disaster Aid Australia some of your donation will have helped several SkyHydrant Installations like these:

Gedu High School

Rhadi Middle School

Help Us Deliver Safe Water for Every Child

To help us raise money we have a challenge based on avoiding bottled water for the month of March.

Sign up for the challenge at this link: DAA WATER CHALLENGE

For several years we have been publicising that the SkyHydrant has the ability to filter water without the use of power.

However we have found that in practice, installation of a SkyHydrant has much greater environmental benefits in CO2 reduction.

This is because the SkyHydrant replaces alternative methods of achieving safer drinking water.

Bottled Water

Some people in the communities we help had previously have bought bottled water.

Manufacture of bottles, filtring the water, bottling, and transport of the bottles, has been independantly assessed to generate 140kg of CO2 per 1000litres.

If only 10% of the daily capacity of the SkyHydrant is used to replace bottled water that means a reduction of 51 tonnes of CO2 each year.

Boiling Water

Others in communities previously boiled the water to kill bacteria.

Boiling 1,000 litre of water on an open fire uses 77kg of wood which releases 130kg of CO₂.

If only 10% of the daily capacity of the SkyHydrant is used to replace boiled water that means a reduction of 47 tonnes of CO2 each year.

Offset Comparison

Based on the above figures a single SkyHydrant can offset the equivalent of 249,000km to 268,000km driven in a medium car in a year.

Sponsoring a SkyHydrant could offset the CO2 emissions of your club or small business.