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Training HPR Class June 14-16, 2012
A hand pump repair program that trains nationals and provides tools for hand pump repair not only increases a sustainable success rate but can also provide micro-business possibilities for people to keep hand pumps repaired throughout an entire region.
You will learn:
- Various hand pump types
- The hand pump makes and models commonly found in the developing world
- Hand pump construction and operation
- Hand pump repair tools
- How to pull hand (cylinder) pumps
- How to repair cylinder pumps
- Background on well-drilling methods and water well construction
- How to disinfect water wells
- How to retrieve items dropped down a well
FEES: $400 per person
Hand Pump Repair training lasts 3 days, 7 hours per day.
Breakfast and lunch are included each day.
Pakistani Doctors take EDGE Water Disinfection Units to Pakistan
Louisville group sending 50 water purification units to Pakistan
In August 2010 after record breaking floods in Pakistan two doctors here in Louisville, Shahid Qamar and Mohammed Hussain, came to EDGE for training so they could help with the extreme need for safe water there. That beginning placed 75 disinfection units in Pakistan and trained more than 140 people to install, operate, and maintain the systems. We are so honored to work with this group of physicians in Louisville to save lives in Pakistan. This work continues today as reported in the CJ story link.
Courier Journal online story Feb 6, 2012
Recent photos of an installation in Pakistan. Click on photos for larger view.
The tanks and EDGE Disinfection unit are on the roof. The safe water line runs down the side of the building to the left of the unit.
More information in the EDGE Press Release
Mobile Water Training
Where EDGE brings the Training to You!
Every day thousands of people around the world die because of water borne diseases. Pathogens that cause severe diarrhea are especially deadly, e.g. e.choli, cholera and typhoid.
You can be a part of the solution. After training at EDGE OUTREACH you will know how to provide safe drinking to literally tens of thousands of people. What is even better, is that you will know solutions that are simple, affordable and easy to sustain on a long-term basis.
EDGE can bring customized training to organizations that have, or can recruit, 25 or more people that need to learn water purification and health & hygiene education.
Since 2009, EDGE OUTREACH has taken the mobile training to hundreds of people in the Kentuckiana and St. Louis areas. This training includes community health education, water testing, community water assessments, and assembly and operation of a mini-water treatment plant that can provide safe drinking water for thousands of people each day.
Mobile training gives up to 25 people at a time learn not only to provide safe drinking water for up to 10,000 people (per mini-water treatment plant) but also to educate those who will use that water on basic health issues.
The Mobile Water Training Event Includes:
- Health education / community health development
- Community water assessment techniques
- How to test drinking water for the presence of fecal bacteria – a major cause of water-borne disease and death
- How to assemble, operate, and maintain a mini-water treatment plant that uses the McGuire Water Purifier, a chlorine generator used in over 70 countries worldwide.
- While there is some classroom-style instruction, much of the training is hands-on. Students will be required to actually test water and then fabricate parts for, assemble, and operate a two-tank water treatment plant.
Who you should invite to the mobile water training course:
- Those who work in an organization whose goal is to provide safe drinking water.
- Those who provide humanitarian relief and wish to provide life-saving pure water as part of your work.
- Those who go on short/long term mission trips.
- Those who lead teams of people serving in developing countries.
- Those who have the influence to help people take care of their own water supply.
- Those who do medical-related humanitarian relief work and want to add a health-and-hygiene education component in a health clinic situation.
- Those who work in short- or long-term missions in developing countries and want to add clean water to your tool box.
- Those preparing for work, projects and endeavors similar to Peace Corps service.
What is covered in the mobile training:
- How to work with communities on drinking water projects
- How to test water for the presence of water-borne pathogens
- How to assemble and use a chlorine generator to kill water-borne pathogens, viruses, and parasites
- How to assemble operate and maintain a mini-water treatment system (all hands-on work)
- How to teach lessons in germ transmission, hand washing, etc., that are vital to reducing the incidence of diarrheal diseases
- Point-of-use solutions to unsafe drinking water
- Checklist of tools/parts you will need on mission trips
Mobile training will include:
- Instruction
- Training manual
- Breakfast/lunch
- Resource CD.
Duration and cost:
- Mobile training lasts 2 days, 7 hours per day.
- The registration fee is developed by a partnership with EDGE OUTREACH and the host organization or group. If you seek to bring the mobile training to a group, please email training@edgeoutreach.com.
EDGE Guide to Training
Thank you for filling out our Guide to Training Request form. Below is our current guide, provided for you in a .pdf format.
June 29-30 celebrate RIVERFEST's 10 year anniversary of supporting EDGE's work to save lives with clean water. Get tickets NOW! $10 for 2 days of fantastic music on the banks of the Ohio River. RIVERFEST is hosted and staged by The Shady Glen Club.
