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Filters for Families

“Mountain Movers help replenish my Spirit when it is too tired to go on – I urge you to support their caring program to the many small Christian NGO’s working in developing countries.”Linda Smith, PhD
Filters for Families

 


10-year old girl suffering from arsenic poisoning

 

The Problem
Approximately 450 Million people in the Nepalese Terai Plains, Bangladesh, and Northern India (the Indo-Gangetic Plain) are drinking from wells naturally laced with arsenic. According to the World Health Organization, this is "the worst natural disaster in history.”

Long-term exposure to arsenic via drinking-water causes cancer of the skin, lungs, urinary bladder, and kidney, as well as other skin changes such as pigmentation changes and thickening (hyperkeratosis).

According to some estimates, arsenic in drinking-water will cause 200,000 -- 270,000 deaths/year from cancer in Bangladesh alone (NRC, 1998; Smith, et al, 2000).
Source: World Health Organization

 


Dr. Linda Smith giving a filter to a Nepalese family

The Solution
Mountain Mover Linda Smith, PhD, directs the only sustainable filter program that removes arsenic from the drinking water. Filtering decreases the Arsenic concentration from 700 ppm to ≤ 10 ppm.

She has recently joined forces with Dr. A. K. M. Munir, a Bangladesh Physician, to manufacture and distribute his superior-design filter. He has transferred exclusive rights to MMI for applying his filter in Nepal.

No matter where we go or what we do—we always offer more than physical help, we share the love of Christ. Providing a basic need, safe drinking water, opens doors to share the Gospel

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“Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life..." (John 4:13-14)

 

Another New Mission Beginning to Find Success


Young girl in daycare

Daycares in Mustang Region
The Mustang region of Nepal is in the part of the country near the Himalayan Mountain Range, bordering Tibet. This region has virtually no churches, not even house churches, however, one
ministry is finally beginning to bear fruit through daycares.


A few children playing in a daycare in the Mustang Region of Nepal

A few daycares have been started in the region followed by small house churches. Now, the ministry is starting to expand even further, adding a new college ministry, in which recently converted college students are being discipled alongside the Jesus film. Please remember this ministry, along with all of our other ministries, in your prayers as they continue to grow and bear fruit.