India: Educating a Community Through Murals, Comic Books
Dec 19 , 2022
Join us on a walk through a community in Vellore with Sandeep Dahiya, Pure Earth India's Director of Strategic Communications. The people of Rangapuram, Vellore, India, are busy, have less educational opportunities, and are not very aware of lead exposure.
ReadA Toxic “Craft” Village in Vietnam Cleans Up (VIDEO)
Jul 29 , 2014
http://youtu.be/PBGDERL3t4o Every day, trucks full of used lead-acid batteries from cars, motorbikes and other vehicles are brought in from across Vietnam to the rural village of Dong Mai in the agricultural heartland of Vietnam. Dong Mai is one of thousands of toxic "craft".
ReadSoccer Field Transformed From Toxic Lead Dump To Safe Play Space
Jul 29 , 2014
[caption id="attachment_16187" align="alignnone" width="300"] This soccer field used to be highly contaminated with toxic lead. Children were being poisoned everyday.[/caption] In Cinangka, Indonesia, a playground near the primary school was so toxic that parts of the field had lead levels.
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