The team installed a Trekker Water Purification Unit at an emergency shelter in the village of Bau. Bau serves over 500 members of the surrounding community. Four more Trekkers are slated to be installed tomorrow in remote and isolated areas. Three hundred thousand Aquatabs and 10,800 ORS were distributed.
The local water board in Blumenau District, which includes some the communities affected the most by the flooding, does not have the capacity to meet the clean water needs of those affected. Therefore, GlobalMedic will set up the Nomad Water Purification Unit in Blumenau to provide mass distribution of clean drinking water to the region. Five Trekkers will be installed in surrounding isolated communities in addition to the distribution of 1.7 million Aquatab Water Purification Tablets and 46,000 Oral Rehydration Sachets.
GlobalMedic would like to thank Air Canada Cargo for their support.
