RainCatcher . . . a father & son story . . . Waves for Water.
Jon Rose is currently traveling & working with the U.N. & Sean Penn’s team in Haiti - www.jphro.org Canread Jon’s daily updates from the front lines at www.wavesforwater.org. So far, Jack & Jon have distributed 9000 clean water systems throughout the earthquake zone, and in remote regions of the country, bringing safe drinking water to over a hundred thousand people.
All of us would like to extend a special acknowledgement to Dennis Haysbert, Sean Penn, Diana Jenkins, Patricia Arquette and employees of Patagonia for their extensive donations of time, talent & funds. Together we will continue to bring our clean drinking water systems to the survivors in Haiti.
If you want to help us just push the donate button or send a check, payable to; RainCatcher, inc. and mailed to 28990 Pacific Coast Hwy 109-B Malibu, California 90265
To those who have already helped fund our relief efforts – “Thank you, thank you, thank you”.
The simplest way to catch, store and deliver clean drinking water is through with a RainCatchrer. Along with impact partner, Raincatcher.org, HUB has installed raincatchers in schools in Africa and also supports efforts to dig water wells.
Unregulated irrigation along the shores of Lake Victoria in Africa has drastically lowered the availability of clean water. Women and children become critically ill through lack of water or usage of dirty water.
Fred Mango, Spryte Loriano & Charlie Gay in Nairobi, Kenya, August 2008
Here is Fred Mango from RainCatcher Kenya with HUB (Humanity Unites Brilliance) founders Spryte Loriano and Charlie Gay getting ready to install new RainCatchers at the Jubilee Children’s Center in Nairobi.
Funds for the latest RainCatcher project in Western Kenya have been raised and donated by HUB (Humanity Unites Brilliance). As a result of this action three schools with 700 AIDS orphans have received new RainCatcher systems (tanks, gutters, filters).
Jack Rose and Mark Armfield worked with Father Kizito to bring RainCatchers to his 30 schools in Uganda. As a result of this meeting, arranged by Wendy Lynch, coupled by personal donations from Danielle Light and Lucas Donat, our RainCatcher Uganda project is well under way. Photos soon.
Our goal is a RainCatcher on every school in Uganda.
Starbucks is a good model for what we are attempting to do with RainCatcher – 11 stores 20 years ago – today over 16,000. Starbucks generates billions of dollars in sales by selling an ordinary product, coffee, in an extraordinary way.
We are proposing to do the same with drinking water. From Maui to Nairobi to Santa Monica people will be able to enjoy a local product. And every time they do this, someone less fortunate gets a drink as well. After people become familiar with the taste and quality and environmental positives of harvesting and using rainwater they will then be able to turn their houses into RainCatchers and, with the coming of the next rains, go from being a water consumer to a water producer. RainCatcher households will have cases of their own glass bottles to fill from a tap in their kitchen — and keep a full case in the car at all times — and the empties go through the dishwasher and get refilled.
Simply by turning the umbrella upside down we have already begun the water revolution here in California — with plans to bring bottled rainwater to every corner of the earth. Our first RainCatcher Bottling Plants are being designed right now for sites in the Santa Monica Mountains and Kenya. Already, we have people in other states around the country waiting to become franchise partners. People all around the world are waiting to work with us on this project.
Throughout Africa and India and China it’s a matter of life-and-death.
That’s why we are expanding our efforts now. When it comes to rainwater the cup is neither half empty or half full, its overflowing. With a great sense of joy we are catching and sharing this amazing abundant natural resource.
Jack Rose & Mark Armfield, 2008 — the year of gratitude.
Thanks a lot for coming. People are already drinking clean and safe water. They want me to take photos as they drink water and send them to you. I am opening a RainCatcher office at the center where I stay. From here with your help I will make the Bosiango project a model project in Africa you will be proud of. The filters are a miracle, wonderful and perfect. I’m naming my truck RAINCATCHER. This region is wide and has a great potential.
I was born in a poor family 42yrs ago. My father died of amoebic typhoid, a water borne disease. Water diseases are a problem in this place. I’m enrolling for Msc. AGRICULTURAL and RURAL DEVELOPMENT, with an interest in rain water. Rain can be a great tool with which we can develop rural communities and improve lives of our people. You are my mentor. You have taught me a lot about rain water. These days I check emails 2x every week. So send me any message directly. You are a wonderful friend. Together we will always catch rain. God bless. Your friend, David.
