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 Mountain Of Success in Agbogbloshie
Dec 28 , 2016
A mountain of success! Pure Earth partner GreenAd's Bennett Akuffo is shown here standing on a pile of cleanly processed plastic cable casings in Agbogbloshie, Ghana. This is what would have been burnt, releasing polluting toxic fumes, if local recyclers.
ReadIntroducing Molly Bair: Superstar Model, Pollution Fighter!
Dec 16 , 2016
After a quick lesson at Pure Earth's office, Molly shows off her skills with the XRF--a handheld X-ray fluorescent analyzer that can identify toxic particles in soil in about 30 seconds! #FightPollution with Molly Bair When you see model Molly.
ReadGetting Lead Out Of Sovetskoe (Kan), Kyrgyzstan
Dec 05 , 2016
This post comes from Alena Temnikova, Pure Earth's regional coordinator in Kyrgyzstan. The red wall of the building is made from lead-contaminated sand taken from the mine tailings. When lead and zinc ore mining began in the 1950s, the first workers lived.
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