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Fund
Individual donors, school clubs, and grant partners fund each cohort of filters.
Teen-led · Fiscally sponsored by Hack Club Bank
Cleanwater,deliveredbythenextgeneration.
The Cascaid Project funds, sources, and distributes water filters to under‑resourced communities worldwide — starting with families served by SWAP in Kisumu, Kenya.
This is what many communities are drinking right now.
A filter we distribute changes that — no electricity, no chemicals.
Clean water. Every time.
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The problem
Oneinfourpeoplecan'ttrusttheirwater.
Roughly 2.1–2.2 billion people live without safely managed drinking water. Climate change, population growth, and resource mismanagement keep pushing that number in the wrong direction — intense scarcity could displace up to 700 million people by 2030.
The consequences compound. About 3.4 billion people live without safely managed sanitation, 354 million still practice open defecation, and 1.7 billion have no basic handwashing at home. Contaminated water carries cholera, dysentery, typhoid, and polio.
Meanwhile agriculture draws 72% of global groundwater withdrawals, and women and girls lose 250 million hours a day hauling water instead of learning or earning.
Sources: World Health Organization, UNICEF, and United Nations water assessments.
2.2B
people lack safely managed drinking water — 1 in 4 globally
WHO / UNICEF
0.5%
of Earth's water is usable, accessible freshwater
UN
4B
people face severe water scarcity at least one month a year
UN
1,000
children under five die every day from unsafe water, sanitation & hygiene
UNICEF
250M
hours a day spent by women and girls collecting water
UN
$260B
lost each year to health costs and lost productivity
UN
Where we come in
A gravity-fed filter needs no electricity, no chemicals, and no monthly fees — which makes it one of the fastest, cheapest ways to close this gap household by household. We fund the filters, source them, deliver them with SWAP in Kisumu, and train the people who use them.
Filters
Twofilters.Twosettings.Onemission.
For this deployment we've selected two complementary filters — one built to serve hundreds of people a day at clinics and schools, and one built to sit on a family's kitchen counter for years.
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Sawyer SP180NDQR Bucket Adapter Kit
Deploying to clinics & schools
A 0.1‑micron hollow‑fiber membrane that removes 99.99999% of bacteria and 99.9997% of protozoa. With proper maintenance, a single filter can treat up to 1,000,000 gallons over its lifetime — enough to serve an entire clinic or classroom for years.
- Sawyer PointONE™ 0.1‑Micron Absolute Hollow Fiber Membrane Filter
- Quick‑Release Hose Assembly with integrated Bucket‑Rim Hanger Clip
- Universal Hole Cutter + pre‑installed Quick‑Release Bucket Adapter
- Threaded Faucet Adapter (for alternative plumbing setups)
- Dedicated Pressure Cleaning Syringe (essential for backflushing)
Pore size
0.1 µm
Lifetime
1 Filter = Up to 1,000,000 Gallons of Clean Water through proper backflushing and sustained maintenance
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Ceramaji Household Ceramic Filter
Deploying to households
A low‑cost, point‑of‑use ceramic filter designed for daily household use. A porous clay pot — fired with organic material to create microscopic pores and treated with silver nanoparticles for antimicrobial action — sits inside a plastic container with a lid and spigot, holding 8–10 litres of clean drinking water for a family.
- >99.9% bacterial removal, plus protozoa inhibition via silver nanoparticles
- Passive gravity operation — no electricity, no chemicals, no consumables
- 8–10 litre capacity, sized for daily drinking and cooking needs
- 5–10 year lifespan with proper care; locally produced and repairable
- WHO‑aligned; supports Kenya's national WASH strategies
- Ships with a local‑language user guide and live community demonstrations
Capacity
8–10 L
Lifespan
5–10 years
Together, the Sawyer kits protect the shared water points where whole communities gather, while Ceramaji filters follow the same water home to the kitchen table.
Mission
Wateristhefirstthing.Everythingelsefollows.
The Cascaid Project is a teen-led humanitarian nonprofit. We raise money, source high‑quality gravity‑fed water filters, and get them into the hands of families and institutions who need them — with training so they last.
No electricity. No chemicals. No monthly fees. Each filter is a piece of infrastructure a family can own, maintain, and pass down.
- No electricity required
- No consumables
- Built for households
- Trained in-community
On the ground
Kisumu,Kenya—deliveredwithSWAP.
Every filter we fund is placed and trained through Safe Water and AIDS Project (SWAP) — a Kenyan community health organization based in Kisumu with more than two decades of household water experience.
- Partner
- SWAP
- Location
- Kisumu, KE
KISUMU · SWAP HQ
Process
Four steps. One clean glass.
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Source
We source proven gravity-fed filters — Sawyer kits for institutions and Ceramaji for households.
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Distribute
SWAP delivers filters directly to Kisumu — clinics and schools first, then families most in need.
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Train
Every household and site is trained on setup, cleaning, and long-term maintenance.
Transparency
Anonprofitbankyoucanseethrough.
The Cascaid Project runs on Hack Club Bank (HCB), our fiscal sponsor — a nonprofit banking platform built specifically for organizations like ours. Every deposit, every purchase order, every reimbursement is posted to a public, real‑time ledger.
That means anyone — donors, partners, students, journalists — can watch exactly where the money goes: filters bought, shipping paid, training funded. There's no annual report to wait for and no invoice hidden in a drawer. If we spent it, you can see it.
Radical transparency isn't a marketing line for us. It's how a teen‑led nonprofit earns trust — one visible transaction at a time.
Give
Yourdonationbecomescleanwater—literally.
We're a small, teen‑led team, which means every dollar you give travels a very short distance before it turns into a filter, a training session, or a family with safe drinking water. There's no marketing budget to feed and no overhead to bury it in.
Institutional impact
One Sawyer kit → up to 1,000,000 gallons
A single Sawyer SP180NDQR Bucket Adapter Kit, with proper care, can filter up to 1,000,000 gallons over its lifetime — enough to serve a clinic or school in Kisumu for years. Your gift funds the kit, its installation, and staff training.
Household impact
One Ceramaji filter → 5–10 years of safe water
A ceramic Ceramaji filter removes >99.9% of bacteria and lasts a household 5–10 years with proper care — quietly turning contaminated water into clean drinking water for a family, every day, for a decade.
Every gift is tax‑deductible and 100% goes to filters, shipping, and training.
Donations are processed by Hack Club Bank (a 501(c)(3)) and are immediately visible on our public ledger.