Installed a water treatment system at the L'Esperance Orphanage. The children use a BYOW (Bring Your Own Water) system to get clean water using gravity-fed sand filters and solar-powered ultraviolet light disinfection.

Narrative

With support from Engineers Without Borders, Manna Energy Limited built a water treatment system that provides safe drinking water for 130 AIDS and genocide orphans at the L'Esperance Orphanage. The system uses locally available materials to create a water treatment system powered by sunlight and gravity. Water passes through a gravity-fed gravel filter, a gravity-fed sand filter, and then around an ultraviolet light that kills any remaining pathogens. In Rwanda, where diarrheal diseases are a leading cause of death for children under age five, this project is a major improvement to the quality of life and allows the children to spend more time attending school.

Each liter of water that is treated with Manna’s water treatment systems is a liter of water that no longer needs to be boiled with wood. With fewer trees being burned as firewood, less carbon will be released to the atmosphere, which directly translates to verifiable emission reductions. By participating in the United Nations’ Clean Development Mechanism, Manna’s projects will earn Certified Emission Reductions (CERs), or carbon credits, enabling a system of sustainable financing for maintenance and expansion.