Each person who can afford a drink of clean water shares a glass with someone who can’t.
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Mark Armfield receiving a $150,000 donation from Carl Daikeler.
August 31, 2010. RainCatcher and Beachbody join forces to bring rainwater harvesting systems to ten schools in Kenya / Uganda and our clean-water filter systems to over 100,000 people. More stories soon.
To lean about Carl & Beachbody visit http://carldaikeler.blogspot.com and read his August 30 post.
To bring new sources of clean drinking water to Africa, Jack Rose created RainCatcher. To bring these systems to the rest of the world, Jack’s son, Jon, founded Waves for Water: www.wavesforwater.org
New video by Jarrod Holbrook – Now showing on CNN: http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2010/07/14/holbrooke.haiti.water.filter.cnn?iref=allsearch
and a more in-depth version appearing on Vanity Fair:
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2010/07/sean-penn-makes-waves-in-haiti.html
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Waves for Water story in OC Register:
http://beach.freedomblogging.com/2010/08/17/hurley-teams-up-with-waves-4-water/26907/
August, 2009 – Reporter Jarrod Holbrook and RainCatcher Fred Mango document the installation of rainwater harvesting systems on rural schools across Kenya.
CREDITS
the RainCatcher story
narration – Dennis Haysbert . . . . . . . .cinematography – Jarrod Holbrook
schools in Kenya – Fred Mango . . . . . . . . . . . .music - Wabake by Samite
editing – Zak Hudson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . sound - Tom Evoniuk
writer + stills - Jack Rose
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 Can read 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”.
Yours in friendship, Jack Rose
Read more: Dennis Haysbert, Diana Jenkins, Eddie Vedder, Haiti, J/P HRO, Patricia Arquette, Sean Penn
How does the RainCatcher water filter work?
Watch the 1 minute video by Jarrod Holbrook - filmed at a school in Western Kenya.
A RainCatcher is a simple, ingenious arrangement of gutters, tanks and filters placed on schools in remote places so students can enjoy their own source of clean drinking water. To bring what we do in Africa to the rest of the world, Jon Rose created wavesforwater.org
RAINCATCHER, INC. – a California Non-Profit Corporation. Federal tax exempt status under section 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code . . . # 26-4310008
CLEAN WATER NOW by Jon Rose
In any situation, anywhere around the world, clean, safe drinking water is always at hand – once you have the right tools: 1 – a ‘Just Water’ Ceramic Drip filter . . . 2 – two stackable buckets with lids . . . 3 – a sharp knife or drill . . . 4 – and one tap. Three minute video:
For detailed step-by-step instructions:
www.raincatcher.org/2009/05/water-filter-instructions
To carry a few of these in your luggage to anywhere and everywhere, contact jack@raincatcher.org
Above are images of the Family Portable RainCatcher . . . Click on photo to enlarge
These images are meant to illustrate just how easy it is to catch rain: String up a plastic tarp with ropes from trees or buildings and channel the rain water down to a waiting container. Here we use a clean 30 gallon plastic trash can. Photos are from a backyard and St. Martin of Tours school in Los Angeles. Students are learning how to catch and clean rainwater with Father Kizito, visiting from Uganda.
People all around the world can use this demonstration as a starting point in the effort to provide clean drinking water for families. Please send us photos & stories of your variations on the theme: “Available materials / possible ideas” in tackling the problem of finding & creating new sources of safe drinking water. jack@raincatcher.org
Special thanks to Greg & Wendy Lynch; and Marija Newsom. As a result of their contributions of time, talent & funds, many families in Uganda are receiving our clean water filter systems.
Click on photo to enlarge, then click again to see full size.
Wendy Lynch, Father Kizito and Mark Armfield working together with many volunteers and sponsors to bring RainCatchers to 30 schools in Uganda.
As a result of our collaborations the RainCatcher Uganda project is well under way.
Special thanks from thousands of students, teachers & parents to Danielle Light, Lucas Donat, eHarmony & Hotwire for bringing the gift of clean water.
Our goal is a RainCatcher on every school in Uganda.
‘Water for Everyone’ . . . ‘What if ’ dialogue between two students
Casting Call: Local Malibu parents & teachers. With our next RainCatcher video we are creating a link between students in America and their counterparts in Africa. We need two voices – a boy and a girl – to participate in a ‘What if’ dialogue www.raincatcher.org/category/get-involved. This will be a voice-over narration. Looking for middle-school students. Click the VIDEO button above to view a half dozen samples of our RainCatcher videos.
contact: jack@raincatcher.org