Where We Work - the need

SkyJuice™ has supplied over 350 water purification units since January 2005. Over 200 have been deployed into tsunami affected countries whilst further humanitarian installations have been commissioned in Sri Lanka, India, East Timor, Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, Pakistan, Vietnam, Bangladesh, South Africa, Fiji, Oman, Peru, Mexico, Kenya and the Maldives. Further installations are anticipated throughout 2008 in Africa, the Pacific region and Asia.

The SkyJuice Foundation has MOU’s and relationships with OXFAM, World Vision , Red Cross, W.H.O., ADRA, Caritas, Australian Aid Inernational (AAI), UNICEF, OZ Green, Samaritan's Purse and others.

Reducing the ill health and disease of children through improved water and sanitation frees the time of the adults who care for them (particularly women) for more productive activities; it also keeps the children themselves from missing school.  Less illness means that adults miss fewer days of work with positive impacts on overall income and livelihood security.  Access to water near the home saves time for women and girls, time that can be spent on productive activities and education which lay the groundwork for economic growth. 

Health Impact of Poor Quality Water and Sanitation

• Approximately 4 billion cases of diarrhoea each year cause 2.2 million deaths, mostly among children under 5 years - this is equivalent to approximatley 6000 children dying every day.
• At any given time almost half the poeple in the developing world suffer from water borne preventable diseases.
• More than half the world's hospital beds are filled with people suffering from water-related diseases.
• Some six million people are blind from trachoma, with 500 milion people at risk from this water-borne disease, a leading cause of blindness in the developing world