Film Production: Debra Brosseuk
Cooperative Project between Potters Without Borders, KIST (Kigali Institute of Science and
Technology, UNICEF, and the KACYIRU Pottery Cooperative.
Apr 182010
Jan 032010
From Yemen Today Magazine: http://www.yemen-today.com/go/development/3376.html
31/12/2009 06:48:00 by : Sammi Aryani
Khadija al-Zafeni walks two kilometers to collect water from a rain-fed cistern three times a day. “My children were constantly sick because of the water.
Khadija al-Zafeni walks two kilometers to collect water from a rain-fed cistern three times a day. “My children were constantly sick because of the water. Each of them was stricken with severe diarrhea every month. It would reach the point to which they would be skinny and frail and sleep all day. For a mother, it’s hard to watch your children suffer like that.” This is the daily condition for the staggering 44 percent of Yemenis who currently live without access to clean drinking water, one of life’s most basic necessities, but also the one most easily taken for granted. However, Khadija is gratefully using the past tense, for, thanks to Richard Boni’s colloidal silver filters, her family has now been granted the right to drink water free of disease. As the Silver Filter Company expands, this could be the reality for the rest of Yemen’s rural and urban poor.
A big challenge is getting the press through customs and into the places where it is most needed. So Creative Machines developed a highly portable press that could be disassembled and checked as airplane luggage. Even though our press can produce 20 tons of force, it can be disassembled and made to fit in a suitcase. It is so small it doesn’t even incur an oversize fee. This 5-1/2 minute video shows the press being tested for the first time by Potters for Peace.
