H C T V plans its last trip for the year...

As the year draws to a close, we are taking stock and planning for our next trip in early December which will be our last trip for this year.

Thanks to your support, we are now looking into buying our own BP (blood pressure) & glucose testing kits. All this time, we were borrowing for each trip & just paying for the cost of the strips. Now that our trips are regular, we feel that it'll be more practical for us to get our own equipment. We still do not have our own vehicle, and will have to be renting another vehicle for this trip.

During this trip, we'll also be finalising our plans for CWTV (Clean Water To Villagers) - materials needed & time involved. We aim to have clean water supply for this village by early next year, and although we do not have the required funds in hand yet, we need to plan our work & be ready for the funds which will hopefully arrive in time. Lives are at stake, and "we cannot stand idly by, enjoying our own riches and freedom if, in any place the Lazarus of the twentieth century [or any century] stands at our doors.” (Pope John Paul II)

Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach - Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Happy WTD!

Today is WTD...and we celebrate it because:

2.5 billion people worldwide don't have access to proper sanitation, risking their health, stripping their dignity, and killing 1.8 children a year.

Diarrheal diseases kill five times as many children in the developing world as HIV/AIDS.

That's 5,000 children DYING EVERY SINGLE DAY.

Disease kills more children than either malaria or AIDS, stunts growth, and forces millions - adults and children alike - to spend weeks at a time off work or school, which hits both a country's economy and its citizens' chances of a better future.

The majority of the illness in the world is caused by fecal matter.

Lack of sanitation is the world's biggest cause of infection.

One gram of feces can contain 10 million viruses, one million bacteria, 1,000 parasite cysts and 100 parasite eggs.

Safe disposal of children's feces leads to a reduction of nearly 40% in childhood diarrhea.

For more info, pls click here

We @ H C T V would like to take this opportunity to thank you again for all your support and encouragement. Building the 1st toilet in the village was quite an achievement, but it cannot be the last either. We look forward to your continued support as we bring more "movement" to the toilet-less.

For more info on what's in the "pipeline" for H C T V, please click here

Next in the "pipeline"....

Now that we've got the 1st toilet up & running (no pun intended), we need to ensure that the villagers have clean water supply. As Kofi Annan, (former United Nations Secretary-General) said - “We shall not finally defeat AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, or any of the other infectious diseases that plague the developing world until we have also won the battle for safe drinking water.”

So here's a diagram of what we plan to do:

Please click on the diagram above for a clearer version. Thank you

For more information on this project, please visit our sister site: C W T V

H C T V 01 November visit

We were blessed with a rented car for this trip - a Ford Ranger which allowed us to take in our health team & a whole lot more of supplies.

Both the vehicles (Ford Ranger & Mitsubishi Storm) were filled up to the max with medical supplies, frozen breastmilk, food rations & infant formula.


These big cars also helped us deal with the broken & bumpy roads - other than allow us to take in a lot more than we usually can.

While it seemed like a lot of stuff to take in, it'll only last the villagers a week or less. But it's the best we can do for now, and we're grateful for your support - for allowing us to do all this.

The highlight of the trip was checking out the long awaited toilet..:) Here's what it looks like:


We're pleased to share with you here, a video of our trip. It is a little choppy, so we suggest you play it once with the volume off (so you can do something else while it buffers), then hit the "replay" option so it will play smoothly. Remember to switch on the volume again before watching...;)