We Brought Water To Kenya

in kindo lack of clean drinking water forces locals to depend on desalination plants but limited access to these facilities often results in disease suffering and death the lack of Plumbing infrastructure means water is often transported by bicycles which is both slow and physically demanding because of steeper of potholes so Dan and Darren headed there immediately to tackle this problem by surprising the delivery men with their brand new robust electric powered e-bikes but before they do we have a thousand more electric e-bikes to give away so make sure you watch to the end to find out how you can get one we're at one of Kim Powell's eight solo awarded desalinization funds that is approaching their goal of providing a million liters of clean drinking water every day a desalination plant works like this a salty Prime enters a pipe and is pushed through reverse osmosis membranes at high pressure and then chemically treated if necessary to provide clean drinking water unaware of how bad the untreated drinking water was Darren decided to give it a taste which gave Darren an idea to revenge for what Dan did when it caps out of the boat in Colombia San Pedro salt water that's for Colombia brother After experiencing firsthand what the untreated water tasted like we met with Mr Barraza I am a father of six children I'll be the best flight of all that's why I work so hard when we take my bed my bus going to tell some ideas and one of the feathers is not there triplets are not 100 lucky sometimes I think people will take motorbike engine and put to my Pascal my life could be easy Mr Barraza is one of many delivery men that load up as much as 52 gallons of water which weighs over 430 pounds onto their bicycles and they do this seven times a day most of the time their bicycles are so heavy that they have to push them around the city all while only earning one dollar per trip which means at maximum they're making seven dollars a day Rama is another delivery man that relies solely on the delivery system to support his family at any time during the day Rama receives a phone call from the plant he then has to leave his two-week-old baby at home this time consuming and low earning work means men like Rama will never break free from poverty to show just how unstable these bikes are we asked their learn to take one for a drive down a hill does this have breaks [Music] how do you think you're gonna be able to do it the Jerry cans yes me and the Jerry cans no 23 brand new e-bikes finally arrived in the incredible team from Electric e-bikes quickly got to work to set them up before the work day began Darren then got the manager of the plant to call the delivery men in for a fake order of water is he coming yeah but instead when arriving they got surprised with a brand new top of the range fully optimized for work efficiency Electric e-bike we then went on to deliver even more electric e-bikes so drivers in eight different cities around Kenya as well as a women's shelter in Haiti I am about to do my first delivery with my new bike [Music] [Music] they are now able to do double the amount of trips per day which ultimately leads to double the income for their families not only are we providing a more sustainable way for the community to access water but also giving these drivers a Lifeline to support those closest to them I love it you love it yeah but what we're doing here in Kenya is just the start as part of this video our partner electric e-bites has donated 1 000 new electric bikes for us to give away so if you or someone you know is struggling with reliable transportation just follow the instructions in the description below to see if you can get one completely free these bikes have a range of around 40 miles which can help someone without reliable transportation get to work get to school or even get to Medical Treatments and of course it's completely free to enter we just want to help as many people as possible thank you electric e-bikes for sponsoring this video I appreciate it a lot thanks for watching subscribe no [Music]

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Length: 4min 29sec (269 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 09 2023