Clean Water for China's Orphans

CEHP and A Child's Right

See where CEHP and A Child's Right are providing clean water.

China Environmental Health Project in partnership with A Child’s Right is bringing clean water technology to vulnerable and sick orphans in China’s Social Welfare Institutes (SWI) and Children’s Welfare Institutes (CWI).

This project seeks to address the issue of water safety for China’s orphans. Water quality in China is extremely poor, particularly in urban areas. China’s orphans are at tremendous risk from unsafe water because of their poor living environments and preexisting health conditions that have weakened their ability to fight off the harmful bacteria found in their water supply.

• Water Treatment: By installing water treatment systems in 102 orphanages in seven provinces including some of China’s poorest, in the southwest the project will provide safe drinking water to at least 14,200 orphans plus at least 2,300 adults at these Social Welfare Institutes.
• Maintenance: Spare parts and routine maintenance are provided for five years after each system is installed.
• Education: Extensive education focusing on hygiene, food preparation, and sanitation practices is being provided for primary staff and caregivers at each location.
• Water quality testing: Water-quality testing will be conducted every six months for five years after each system is installed.
• Training: Southwest University students are being trained in the testing, installation, and maintenance of these systems.
• Sustainability: The project is working with SWU and WKU student groups, to identify ways that the technology can be applied in rural China to serve other highly vulnerable groups in a feasible, cost-effective, and sustainable way.