SOCOTRA BIO INC. HAS BUILT CLEAN WATER WELLS FOR 2000 VILLAGERS IN TOGO

If you’re among the 9 out of 10 people on the planet who have clean water available close to your home and around the clock, count yourself lucky. Hundreds of millions of people are not so fortunate, and their families pay the price daily. Water-related diseases sap their energy. Carrying buckets of dirty water for hours prevents mothers from earning money and children from attending school. They don’t have the water needed to irrigate crops or water livestock. And at the end of the day, it’s hard to sleep knowing the next day will be the same. These are people who lack basic water service, and in most cases, they must walk more than 60 minutes round trip to a water source every single day.

SOCOTRA IS TRANSFORMING DIRTY WATER INTO CLEAN WATER.

Socotra Bio Inc. water treatment system will take care of removing unwanted dissolved solids from well water through the utilization of highly efficient reverse osmosis membranes. Less wastewater, low energy consumption, high flow rates and contaminant rejection. Clean water prevents not only deaths but also severe illnesses that cause painful cramping, diarrhea, vomiting, fevers, and other symptoms. Dirty, unsafe water that is laden with feces and bacteria leads to waterborne diseases such as cholera, typhoid fever, dysentery, Escherichia coli, and salmonella

WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE RICH AND THE POOR WITH REGARD TO MONEY?

Rich people see money as an opportunity, poor people see it as something to be earned. Rich people are said to make money work for them. Instead of just working and relying on income, a rich person will take a proportion of their income and invest it. Compounded interest works in favour of the rich. Every one of them wants to own a big house and a Royce Rolls just to feel they are successful or they have somehow achieved their goals.

SOCOTRA WANTS TO END THE NIGHTMARES THAT MANY AFRICAN CHILDREN HAVE ABOUT BEING POOR

In Dream Analysis, having a dream about poverty symbolizes feelings of sadness and anxiety. This kind of dream makes you feel that all the problems that haunt you have no way out, and this makes you unhappy. When you dream of poverty, you feel the need to focus more on the requirements that revolve around both you and your family. A child in an impoverished family may dream about money, but in Africa more than likely instead of money that child will dream about something as basic as having access to clean water, or even to dirty water, just as long as there is water. A realization of that dram will mean that neither that child or their mother will no longer have to go great distances and waste precious hours just to get a few jags full of water. The child will prefer to be able to go to school instead of searching for water, a chance every child deserves to have. This is why we work as hard as we do to help wherever we can – because every child deserves the opportunity to be a success.

HOW SOCOTRA BIO INC. HELPS REDUCE POVERTY CAUSED AND AFFECTED BY LACK OF WATER

When our team arrives in Togo or anywhere in Africa, they bring hope and life to villagers and gives them access to safe water – this is a fundamental component of Socotra Bio Inc. helping to eliminate poverty, because water is life. We try to help everyone do better, and we invest in safe water because a lack of clean water and poverty are intricately intertwined. When you can’t access safe water, you can’t stay healthy, go to work, go to school, or grow your crops for safe consumption.

SOCOTRA BIO INC. UNDERSTANDS WHAT WATER MEANS SPIRITUALLY

All cultures around the world equate water with healing and energy. People often travel great distances to drink or bathe in water from mountains, wells and springs that are imbued with special energy; and many people believe that water has the ability to absorb prayers, cleanse unwanted energy and bestow good medicine. For the poor in villages in Togo, however, water is more than just spiritual – it is life. Many of the villagers we interact with have access to clean water, but so many more don’t enjoy the same access. Socotra Bio Inc. is working with and encouraging the villagers who do to help those that have little or no access to a ready supply of safe drinking water.

SOCOTRA BIO INC HAS A MISSION: TO HELP AS MANY CHILDREN AND VILLAGERS AS POSSIBLE

WE ARE DOING WHAT WE CAN! Just imagine how clean water is the beginning of the transformation of a society. It immediately impacts sanitation, school attendance, community health, and leads to increased farming yields. In Togo and Zambia, access to clean water is extremely limited due to the high cost of drilling wells with large mechanical drill rigs
Socotra Bio Inc. has created a villagers’ drill team. It uses a manually operated drill that requires no heavy machinery and reduces the cost of drilling to a fraction of the cost of a traditional mechanically drilled well. Although countless Socotra villager teams work every day to bring clean water to those who need it, most do so at an unsustainable cost. Each Village Drill uses a team of 6-8 operators to manually drill a well in about 2 days. In addition to creating the teams and funding the cost of the Village Drills, Socotra Bio Inc. helps to pay for the cost of each of the wells drilled this way

SOCOTRA HAS OFFERED THE HEALTHIEST POTABLE WELL WATER FOR VILLAGES IN AFRICA.

The healthiest water to drink is water that is free of pathogens and contaminants, yet rich in key minerals. Urban water treatment technologies in Africa are the most commonly used wastewater treatment technologies: activated sludge, bio/trickling filters, rotating biological reactors, wastewater ponds, membrane bio-reactors, wetlands and aerobic granular activated sludge. Also, reverse osmosis (RO), ultrafiltration (UF), microfiltration (MF) and nanofiltration (NF) are the most commonly used membranes for water treatment processes in developed cities. But these are not practical or reasonable technologies for small remote villages without proper infrastructure. In those locations village wells are the better solution.

WHY IS WATER IMPORTANT TO THE PEOPLE OF AFRICA?

Water is essential for life and good health. Fresh water is not only needed for drinking but also cooking, food production and a variety of other uses such as sanitation, hygiene and cleanliness practices. Lack of proper sanitation can force people to defecate in the open, in rivers and near areas where children play, which in turn feeds back into ground water and makes the water polluted and unsafe for human consumption.

How does lack of water affect Africa?

Water access impacts food security, and therefore increases hunger rates. Without water for sanitation, it is also difficult to provide communities with basic health care and to protect citizens from preventable diseases.
African cultures characterize water, by virtue of its life-giving nature, as both physical and spiritual in essence – but even of greater spiritual utility than physical. Water is used in important prayer forms in various acts of libation.
Socotra Bio Inc. has actually seen people come and demonstrate their faith the day when they see water coming from the wells that Team Socotra Bio Inc. have created. They give prayers and blessings, and sacrifice livestock and feast in thanksgiving for getting the precious gift of water in their villages.

SOCOTRA CHOOSE TOGO BECAUSE WE KNOW THE WATER THERE IS NOT SAFE

Socotra Bio Inc. CEO & Founder Mitak Awad and our Saudi partners have trained several drill teams in the area, and we were looking for an economical way to supply our teams with the parts they needed to continue drilling. AIRSD is an international training and research institute established to foster economic development and social progress of the developing world, and it through them that Socotra Bio Inc. achieved the parts and technology we were seeking.

THE LUXYRY OF CLEAN WATER

Clean water is quite a luxury for many people in Togo. According to UNICEF, a quarter of Togo’s people do not have access to drinking water within 30 minutes walking distance of their homes. In Tchangana-Kondji village for example, almost 300 km north of the capital city Lomé, the single village well is nearly dry.

WATER CAN BE DEADLY AND CAN GIVE LIVE TO PEOPLE

Schistosomiasis, a parasitic infection that can be spread in fresh water, is found in Togo, and public health advisories warn the locals to avoid swimming in fresh, unchlorinated water, such as lakes, ponds, or rivers. While these advisories are important, the daily challenges faced by everyday villages that lack safe sources of fresh water often makes the warnings moot. People need to bathe and cook and do laundry, and if lakes and ponds and rivers are their only available option in the absence of clean water, they will use them despite the risks.

SOCOTRA’S CHALLENGE IN TOGO

In our project villages, the crucial problem is the lack of safe water that leads to extreme poverty. The burden borne by women of hauling water from distant streams, spending 6 hours by day sometimes, is often shared by her young daughters leaving them with neither the time nor the energy for schooling. The unsafe waters cause sickness to people in our project communities. These farmers lack the strength to farm but have to spend their already low revenues to pay medical costs.

M SACRIFICE OF LIVESTOCK

Muslims sacrifice livestock? The sacrifice of livestock, including sheep, goats and cows, during Eid al- Adha (the Eid of Sacrifice) commemorates a story mentioned in the Quran, in which the Prophet Ibrahim (Abraham in the biblical tradition) was commanded by God to sacrifice his son Ismail, and at the last-minute God provided a ram instead.

y ritual will be what gives the holiday its name: “Adha” means “sacrifice” in Arabic. Most families who can afford to do so will slaughter an animal — perhaps a sheep, goat, cow or camel. The animal will be blindfolded, gently put down and then slaughtered while the name of God is praised. The meat is consumed by the family and also distributed to neighbors and to the needy. For some non- Muslims, it may seem puzzling that Muslims engage in such a seemingly bloody ritual. But Jews and Christians should be able to relate to the holiday’s origin: the biblical story of the sacrifice of Isaac.

ry is in both the Book of Genesis and, with some interesting variations, the Quran. In the story, Abraham receives a shocking injunction from God: He must offer his beloved son as a sacrifice. As a devoted servant of God, he agrees to obey and takes the child to Mount Moriah to slaughter him. At the last moment, God, satisfied with Abraham’s devotion, saves the boy by sending a ram as a substitute sacrifice.

re minor differences between how the story is told in Islam and how it’s told in Judaism and Christianity — such as the name of the child, which the Quran doesn’t mention and Muslims gradually accepted as Ishmael. But the moral lesson is the same: Abraham’s piety should be celebrated. He was willing to obey God’s order, even if it meant killing his son.

e work that Socotra Bio Inc. does in the remote villages in Togo, the villagers will offer these kinds of sacrifices in celebration for the gift of life-giving water. It is the equivalent of the killing of the fattened calf in the Bible and in the Koran, and is both celebratory and pious at the same time. Water is spiritual, and so is sacrifice. It is not as simple as just slaughtering an animal in an abattoir for food – in the village it feeds both the body and the spirit.

SOCOTRA BIO INC. IS PROVIDING AID, CLEAN WATER AND MEDICAL CARE

Socotra Bio Inc. and their associates from the kingdom of Saudi Arabia have been active in Afghanistan for decades, providing aid such as clean water and medical care. Millions of children in Afghanistan are facing extreme hunger, exploitation, a loss of their education, and endless disease outbreaks. It is a humanitarian catastrophe. More than half of the population, 24.4 million people, including 12.9 million children, need assistance. Multiple disease outbreaks (measles, acute watery diarrhea, dengue, and COVID-19) are ongoing. Without access to minimum life-saving services, Afghans will suffer cataclysmic effects.
Socotra Bio Inc. encourages every successful company to support the poor people in the world, it doesn’t matter where, and to be an example to others: invest in and give gifts or charity directly to those in need without depending on any third party organization so everyone can appreciate you and your company. Create meaningful change today for children and communities across the world. Give girls and boys in Canada and around the world a healthy start and protection from harm. Create lasting change. If you prefer to work through recognized entities, the best charities for Afghanistan are Doctors Without Borders, Save the Children, and the International Rescue Committee. They provide important support services across Afghanistan, such as health care and humanitarian aid.

SOCOTRA BIO INC. IS HELPING IN AFGHANISTAN WITH CLOTHING

Socotra Bio Inc. recently started its emergency winter relief program in Afghanistan with distributions of blankets and duvets to refugee families living in derelict areas of Kabul. This marked the official commencement of Socotra Bio Inc. relief assistance in Afghanistan.

AFGHANISTAN: THE DESPERATION OF WOMEN

Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries in the world. After 2 long foreign occupations lasting decades and a continuous struggle for freedom the country has been stripped of all its stability, which means extreme poverty has set into the people of Afghanistan. Women and children are the ones to suffer the most in affected areas from war, famine and poverty. In households where a male is no longer alive or is unable to provide due to injury and illness, the women will then have to find ways to feed her family members from her children to her elderly parents.

WOMEN IN AFGHANISTAN

Across the world, women frequently eat least, last and least-well within their households, and suffer the most from nutrient deficiencies. In Afghanistan, women are struggling to feed their families as the country faces an emergency hunger crisis. Farmers haven’t recovered from a drought in 2018, while this coming year is projected to be worse. International donors have suspended aid to the country for political reasons and the economy is collapsing.

YEMEN’S CHILDREN ARE DYING EVERY 10 MINUTES - IT’S CATASTROPHIC

Yemen is already one of the poorest countries in the region, with tens of thousands of lives lost and over 20 million people not knowing where their next meal will come from. A country crippled by conflict is sadly now on the brink of famine. The tragedy has reached epic proportions, with a child dying every 10 minutes from preventable causes like diarrhea, breathing infections and malnutrition.

YEMEN SUFFERS AND NEEDS URGENT RESCUE

Socotra Bio Inc. has witnessed the fear, worry, hunger, and grief first- hand that, for millions of people in Yemen, is their tragic reality. Every day millions of families have to make an impossible decision between feeding their starving children or accessing life-saving medicine they so desperately need. Recent attacks have only further exacerbated the ongoing desperate situation in Yemen. Famine, armed conflict, displacement, political instability, disease, and economic decline have left millions of people in need of humanitarian aid. Islamic Relief is on the ground, delivering urgently needed food, clean water and medical supplies. Socotra Bio Inc.’s charity operations can be a much-needed relief for children and families facing starvation in Yemen. Socotra Bio Inc. has done a great deal in Yemen. We are helping a lot of children and elderly: it is hard seeing parents boiling leaves from trees to feed their children and themselves. Today the situation has improved somewhat, but we still keep our Socotra team in Yemen pushing for better assistance for our communities and tribes.

SOCOTRA BIO INC. REWARDS HARD WORKING MANAGERS IN SOCOTRA’S CHARITABLE OPERATIONS

Socotra’s teams in the villages and cities are being rewarded with high quality mattresses from our partner’s Mattress Factory in Saudi Arabia, for helping to ensure refugees don’t lose their efforts to stay in safety in their country of refuge, and receive as much help as possible. If you work hard for the poor, to us and God you are a hero and you deserve this small token and more for being the individual that supports his or her communities selflessly.