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Opening their hearts and their suitcases
UofL students stepped up as
part of the solution when Louis-
ville non-prof t WaterStep needed
help transporting 60 water purif -
ers to the typhoon-torn Philip-
pines. In addition to providing
dental cleanings and interactive
educational workshops, each of
the 34 students bound for Cebu
City through UofL's International
Service Learning Program (ISLP)
December 6-16 also agreed to
tote chlorination units overseas.
"We're so thankful to you all,"
WaterStep founder Mark Hogg
said. He and other WaterStep
representatives arrived a few days
later to train people to install
the 60 units to turn polluted,
disease-causing sources into safe
drinking water.
Elliott Bauer, 13S, of Louis-
ville raised enough money per-
sonally to take a unit to Cebu's
Paril School, where he had
taught in the 2012 ISLP trip and
longed to return. Bauer trained
150 people to use the WaterStep
equipment, which will replace
the school's unusable pump and
serve as a community resource
for clean water.
Kevin Brown, left, holds a bucket
as Grant Ford, right, works the
water pump handle at Paril.
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