Founder of WWIF heading to Ghana for deployment of water filters

Jan. 31, 2013

DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. — This latest deployment completes the project initiated by the students at St. Paul Lutheran School in Boca Raton, Fla.

DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. — Guillermo Guzman, Founder of Wishing Well International Foundation (WWIF), is on his way to meet with members of the Safe Water Ghana (SWG) team to witness and assist with the deployment of filters to 50 more families in the village of Bagliga in northern Ghana, according to a press release.

This latest deployment completes the project initiated by the students at St. Paul Lutheran School in Boca Raton, Fla.

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Safe Water Ghana manages one of five distribution centers set up by the Safe Water Team (a Michigan non-profit organization working closely with the Foundation) in Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Haiti, Dominican Republic and Honduras, stated the release.

The trip will give both teams the opportunity to meet face to face and discuss other projects in the area, noted the release.

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Each distribution center already has thousands of filters available and ready for deployment as soon as funding from organizations like WWIF becomes available.

Read the entire press release here.

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