these are some of the water filters we made for the people of panimache, a very poor village of indigenous mayan people. it's dry season right now and their water is a dirty, smelly creek that runs through their village. we took the water filters to the village and showed them how to use them. each filter weighed several hundred pounds and it took about 8 men to carry one filter up a 6" wide goat trail.
we started out using a plywood mold and then borrowed a steel mold from someone that was making water filters for other locations in guatemala. the steel mold worked a lot better and we were able to buy 2 molds to leave at the orphanage for a couple of men to keep making more filters, for panimache, for the orphanage, and for their own homes and families.
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