World Vision delivers clean drinking water to flooded villages

Villages like Nga Lan Da and Yone Seik Kyunin in Yenan Chaung township, Magwe region, are hard to reach due to difficult transportation, which has limited their access to clean water and food.

“We had to use small boats to reach to the village,” said a staff member of World Vision.

World Vision learned that the biggest need in this area was for clean drinking water.

Staff demonstrated how to use P&G Purifier of Water sachets to village leaders, so that they could share the information with the rest of the villagers. River water was used in the demonstration and was done from a boat due to the flooding.

The water purification packet is a powdered mixture that removes pathogenic microorganisms and suspended matter, making previously contaminated water clean.

“No aid has reached our village. Most of the aid just reached a shelter in town. For the first week, we had to just collect and drink rainwater and share bits of food with other villagers. The water purification was really helpful,” said one villager.

Villagers strong enough to reach the shelters could leave their houses to get food and clean water, however, the elderly and those who are watching their houses, are left in the village which is about 1.5 hours by boat from the township’s shelter.

World Vision managed to distribute 32,089 P&G Purifier of Water sachets to the villages as well as families who were at the shelters.