Printing t-shirts has its perks. Aside from losing weight sweating next to a 300+ degree conveyor dryer during the summer you get to meet extraordinary people doing world changing things. Scott and Claire Rumpsa are two of those people that we’ve grown to call friends and over the past few years we’ve been fortunate enough to play a super small part (pulling squeegees) to help out AquaClara, a Michigan based 501(c)3 with a mission to provide clean water for people living on less than $2 per day.
We asked Claire to tell us a little bit more about AquaClara…
T-shirts are a big deal in Kenya. People love getting a t-shirt when there is a political campaign or a special event and wear them proudly for years to come. We wanted the Aqua Clara t-shirts to be special, so we called our good friends at Ambrose. The t-shirts say “Maji Safi” which means ‘clean water in Kiswahili. The people in the blue t-shirts are our Community Development Entrepreneurs (CDEs). Aqua Clara trains the CDEs to make, sell and maintain simple water filters and safe water storage containers for their local community. Soon we’ll be training the CDEs on how to make rainwater harvesting systems and cool composting latrines. The lovely women in the yellow t-shirts are our Community Health Promoters (CHPs) and they visit the people who buy water filters to make sure that everything is working properly and also to train the women in the households about simple hygiene improvements that can help keep their families healthy. The Ambrose t-shirts are now the official uniform for Aqua Clara in Kenya and we are grateful for the lovely people who made them.
Thanks to Scott and Claire and the whole AquaClara team for partnering with us! Check out AquaClara for more info on how you can get involved.
