Storytelling in a Slum

Outdoor Gear Enthusiast, @danbeckeroutdoors joins the Sawyer International team in Kibera and unveils the sheer impact of this revolutionary filter. Since 2019 the goal of The Bucket Ministry has been to secure lasting clean water access for every single household: over 400,000 people in total.

Thanks to incredible fundraising efforts by Dan and the unstoppable team at the Bucket Ministry, the fundraising goal for the project was reached in 2024. We could not have done this without you!

In It for the Long Run

In partnership with Hope College, The Bucket Ministry conducted a longitudinal study on the effectiveness of the Sawyer filter in an urban slum environment. Hope College studied the distribution of 10,000 filters to 10,000 families living in one of the largest slums in Africa: Kibera.

Of those 10,000 families, 52.7% presented with chronic diarrhea as a result of unclean drinking water. Three months following the distribution of these water filters to each family, that figure had shrunk to 2.2%. 

You can view the published study by Hope College here.