To bring clean drinking water to school children in Kenya & Uganda, Jack Rose started RainCatcher.To bring what we do in Africa to the rest of the world, Jon Rose created Waves for Water. Jon is currently traveling & working with Sean Penn’s team in Haiti.
All of us would like to extend a special acknowledgement to Dennis Haysbert, Sean Penn,Diana Jenkins and Patricia Arquette for their extensive donations of time, talent & funds. Together we will continue to bring our clean drinking water systems to the survivors in Haiti.
To those who have already helped fund our relief efforts – “Thank you, thank you, thank you”.
A massive earthquake and tsunami hit Chile this weekend. The earthquake and tidal wave damage is devastating. The epicenter was just 5km from Save The Waves’ Coastkeeper office. Friends, colleagues and neighbors in coastal Chile need everyone’s help now more than ever. The destruction to infrastructure is severe, and includes massive damage to buildings and roads, drinking water systems, power grids, and communication. Aid and relief in the next few weeks will be crucial to help save lives.
Bringing clean water: Jon Rose in Haiti . . .Ron Mathis in Dallas . . . Mike Perkins in Samoa . . . Jon on a volcano in Bali.
The primary focus of our mission will be to provide clean drinking water to hundreds of thousands of Chileans who are currently without water. Save The Waves is partnering with Waves for Water to distribute filter systems for clean drinking water, and plans to get 1,000 filters – enough for 20,000 people to get clean water – distributed in coastal Chile during the first week, with more to follow.
Because Save The Waves Coalition’s ongoing environmental work is in the same area as the disaster, the organization is uniquely positioned to help direct humanitarian relief efforts in the region.
Patagonia Inc, the outdoor apparel company, has stepped up and provided significant support for this initiative, and has been rallying others to join the cause.
All donations to Save The Waves for Chile earthquake relief will go directly to humanitarian work on the ground in the devastated regions near the quake and tsunami epicenter. Humanitarian aid efforts will be focused in the rural coastal areas where help and aid are less available. Since Save The Waves is a small and nimble organization with years of experience in coastal Chile, support for this effort will be extremely effective, with no bureaucratic roadblocks or delays -just pure aid for the coastal communities that are in dire need. Can learn more and participate at the link below.
In any situation, anywhere around the world, clean, safe drinking water is always at hand, once you have the right tools. To see how, watch the three minute video. . . andfor detailed, step-by-step, instructionsgo to www.wavesforwater.org/2009/06/water-filter-instructions .
Above the Rubble - Here’s a recent video of Jon and filters in Haiti by Julie Santos.
RainCatcher + Waves for Water = a father & son story . . . To bring clean drinking water to school children in Kenya & Uganda, Jack Rose started raincatcher.org. To bring the solutions developed in Africa to the rest of the world, Jon Rose created Waves for Water.
The following posts include the next round of Jon’s updates from the front lines of earthquake disaster relief in Haiti.
“You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing
is that you meet it with courage and with the best you have to give.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Soon the tropical rains will arrive in Haiti . . . and we will be there to catch it and clean it. Our Waves for Water team is already on the way, traveling Wednesday on a charter plane from Miami. This plane will be packed with surgeons, medical supplies, generators & equipment and all our materials: filters w/buckets, tarps, plastic trash cans and lots of rope.
Jon Rose, just returning from our Volcano Villages Project in Bali and the earthquake zone in Sumatra, will be heading up our rain catching and water filtration projects in Haiti. We have been working round the clock to prepare for the Thursday departure. Detailed stories, with images, will be posted soon.
Those who want to help us can push the donate button.
While Jon is working on the front lines in Haiti, you can direct any questions to jack@raincatcher.org When our base of operations gets up and running, and conditions on the ground are safe, we will set up a volunteer program where w4w friends can come down for a week to help us.
Surf Volunteers - can purchase w4w filters ($20. each) and deliver to surf destinations all over the world, wherever there is a need for clean sources of drinking water.
Skills for Humanity and Waves for Water have joined forces to create
a new water source for people living on the side of a volcano in Bali.
Mt. Agung
About 1700 families live in 35 remote villages high on the back side of an active volcano known as Mt. Agung. These are the original people of Bali and are the poorest of the poor. Segregated and virtually ignored by society, they live without education, medical care, electricity or water. (link to video in Blogroll)
Introducing the RainCatcher solution
A RainCatcher is a simple, ingenious arrangement of gutters, tanks and filters placed
on a building, allowing people to enjoy a free, private source of clean drinking water.
Portable Family RainCatchers ‘Just Water’ drip filters
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The Waves for Water Volcano Villages Project will distribute hundreds of Portable Family RainCatchers, one for each family, at a cost of $30. per family.
RainCatcher Starter Kitsinclude plastic tarps, rope, 30 gallon trash cans and ceramic drip filters. The entire system is packaged and transported inside the trash can. These are set up during rains by stringing up tarps between trees or buildings. After each rain the tarps are rolled up and put away, kept clean for the next storm. Hundreds of gallons of clean water can be caught and stored with each rain, depending on how many containers each family can round up.
A budget of $50,000. is required to deliver RainCatchers to 1700 families living on the side of Mt. Agung. We are seeking corporate, and/or philanthropic, sponsorship for this project. Individuals can also contribute funds to provide RainCatchers for a single family, a dozen, a hundred . . . ?
The problem and solution arrive hand in hand.
One carries a burden, the other brings a blessing.
The same rainstorm that creates a flood also brings
the promise and miracle of continued life.
To solve the ‘World Water Shortage’
we catch the rain that floods the earth,
combining the gifts of gravity and grace.
The Waves for Water idea is simple: What if each adventure surf budget included a small fraction set aside to bring clean water sources to those who are literally dying of thirst? Every year enough travel/vacation revenues pour down upon Bali, and similar destinations, to provide
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wavesforwater.org
To bring what we do in Africa to the rest of the world we started Waves for Water. Ongoing research with inspired surfers and humanitarians has led to our first Waves for Water RainCatcher project – in partnership with Azucar Surf Retreat, in Bocas del Toro, Panama. Designed to bring drinking water and education supplies to local school children in need, this project will act as a model for similar projects at major surf destinations worldwide.
Our second effort will be the Volcano Villages Project in Bali. Amana Nova, of Skills for Humanity, has asked RainCatcher to create a new water source for people living on the side of a volcano in Bali. There are 35 villages on the volcano with about 50 families in each village. We have already begun designing RainCatchers for villages seen on this video – www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaWt-sP7qWI
And the third Waves for Water project will be the Costa Verde International School in Sayulita, Mexico — www.colegiocostaverde.com — slated for late 2009.
The solution is simple
While traveling to beautiful and exotic destinations, surfers often pass through towns and villages that lack drinking water. Here’s one example: Fiji Water produces more than a million bottles of water a day, while more than half the people in Fiji do not have reliable drinking water. Now surfers and surf travelers will have a chance to correct this imbalance.
Just by doing what they love, and allocating $10 from adventure travel budgets, participating surfers will be able to help reverse the crippling water and education conditions students around the world must endure every day.
To accomplish this we will also join forces with leading surf companies and magazines, adventure travel companies and airlines. Waves for Water funds will go to the region each surfer is visiting: Africa; Indonesia; India; Central America; Mexico. . . everywhere.
Waves for Water team so far
Jon Rose — www.ourpawnshoppe.com — Director of Waves for Water. You can see Jon on the Amazon – Pororoca, 3 minute trailer http://www.surfline.com/video/trailers/pororoca-the-longest-wave-ever_16190 (+ full length doc) and Jon’s slideshow, http://www.surfline.com/surf-news/jon-rose-takes-us-deep-into-the-amazons-natural-wonder-river-run_16327/photos/1/
Mike Lawson — www.azucarsurf.com — Azucar Surf Retreat, Panama Waves for Water Host. Installation manager, site scout & local facilitator.
Pete Macomber — www.serumlab.com. Project Film Director and cinematographer.
Mike Meeker — w4w Film Producer
Josh Bycel — www.onekidoneworld.org – school supplies – will arrange for school supplies to reach our new RainCatcher schools.
Amana Nova — Bali, www.skillsforhumanity.org
Ryan Hitzel — www.ourpawnshoppe.com. Art Director — designing logo for Waves for Water t-shirts, hats & brochures, etc.
Jay Jurisich — www.igorinternational.com. Brand developer — created RainCatcher site and now building www.wavesforwater.org.
Jack Rose, Mark Armfield & Fred Mango — www.raincatcher.org – RainCatchers
RainCatcher mission
Along with bringing a new source of clean drinking water to schools in need, we aim to tell this story:
Many problems facing the world seem unsolvable –- clean drinking water isn’t one of them.
With such a team I know we will join many others in charging towards the goal of H2O 4 every 1.
– Jack Rose
wavesforwater.org
To bring RainCatchers from Africa to the rest of the world we started Waves for Water. Ongoing research with inspired surfers and humanitarians has led to our Waves for Water project – scheduled for November in Bali.
Volcano Villages Project
Amana Nova, of Skills for Humanity, has asked Waves for Water to create a new water source for people living on the side of a volcano in Bali. There are 35 villages on the volcano with about 50 families per village – all in dire need of clean drinking water. We have already begun designing RainCatchers for villages seen on this video – www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaWt-sP7qWI
Our upcoming Waves for Water projects include the Costa Verde International School in Sayulita, Mexico — www.colegiocostaverde.com — slated for January 2010 . . . and schools in Bocas del Toro, Panama – in partnership with Azucar Surf Retreat. Designed to bring drinking water and education supplies to local school children in need, these projects will act as a model for similar projects at major surf destinations worldwide.
The Solution is Simple
While traveling to beautiful and exotic destinations, surfers often pass through towns and villages that lack drinking water. Here’s one example: Fiji Water produces more than a million bottles of water a day, while more than half the people in Fiji do not have reliable drinking water. Now surfers and surf travelers will have a chance to correct this imbalance.
Just by doing what they love, and allocating $10 from adventure travel budgets, participating surfers will be able to help reverse the crippling water and education conditions students around the world must endure every day.
To accomplish this we will also join forces with surf companies and magazines, adventure travel companies and airlines. Waves for Water funds will go to the region each surfer is visiting: Africa; Indonesia; India; Central America; Mexico. . . everywhere.
Bring a new source of clean drinking water to families & schools in need and tell this story: Many problems facing the world seem unsolvable –- clean drinking water isn’t one of them. The w4w team hopes to combine talents and resources with many others in charging towards the goal of H2O 4 every 1.
Surf Volunteers - can purchase w4w filters ($20. each) and deliver to surf destinations all over the world, wherever there is a need for clean sources of drinking water.
