Potters For Peace

The chairwomen of a sister organization to Filter Pure - Potters for Peace - is staying with us. She has been our main source of information in understanding the organization, their mission, and vision for this area and in other countries. She lives in Nicaragua. There her and her husband work for Potters for Peace, and their daughter - a peace corps graduate, teaches in a local school.

She has made the trip to the Dominican Republic, to show solidarity with Filter Pure. Although they use a variation of the same ancient technology, their missions are the same. Providing clean water in local communities that need access to clean water.

The technology both organizations use, is as old as the shards of pottery found in the remains of ancient civilizations, with one minor addition: Colloidal Silver.

The filters made by Filter Pure are cone-shaped. Layers of clay sandwich a layer of charcoal. both are soaked in colloidal silver. The clay and charcoal filter-out 90 percent or more, of what needs to be removed from the water. The colloidal silver is a natural anti-bacterial, that removes micro-bacteria, that would not be filtered by the pores in the clay and charcoal.

We are very excited about the mission of the organization we are working with, and are excited about what we will learn and what we might accomplish in our time here. As they are preparing to fill in order for 1500 filters that are shipping to Haiti, we are helping with the layout of the factory. We are helping to "optimize their work flow" as we might say back at Carnegie Mellon.