Tag Archives: lead poisoning

Children’s Lead Levels Fall 42% Following Cleanup in Kathgora, Bangladesh

Posted on September 5, 2019 by M. Sim

When we returned to the small village of Kathgora, Bangladesh, just months after our remediation work, we found to our delight that the impact was already measurable in the healthier children we saw. Before our cleanup, tests of 75 children … Continue reading →

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Lead Poisoning in Newborns: The Story Of Baby X in Mexico

Posted on May 23, 2019 by M. Sim

Lead Poisoning Study: 300 mothers and their newborns In 2015, Pure Earth worked with the National Institute of Public Health (INSP) in Mexico on the first-ever effort to detect and measure exposure to lead poisoning at a state level in … Continue reading →

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Bihar, India: How we celebrated a community, and helped them take action on lead poisoning

Posted on March 8, 2019 by M. Sim

It was a day to remember. The celebration in the public town square of Karmalichak, a community in Patna, in the state of Bihar, India, was not only fun, but potentially life-changing. Organized by our local partner, the Institute of … Continue reading →

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Generational Impact of Lead Poisoning in Girls

Posted on February 25, 2019 by M. Sim

This post is from Lara Crampe, Pure Earth’s Director of Community Outreach. This photo (above) is heartbreaking for me. The young girl in pink is chronically exposed to extremely high levels of lead because families in her village have been … Continue reading →

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A Clean, Lead-Free Mattress For His Birthday

Posted on November 15, 2018 by M. Sim

Alejandro celebrated his 13th birthday recently with a new mattress, but what he received was a potential lifetime of safe and sound sleep. He is one of about 50 children living near a lead smelter in Malambo, Colombia, who we found … Continue reading →

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From Mexico To Brazil – Sharing Solutions To A Shared Pollution Problem

Posted on September 27, 2018 by M. Sim

When Pure Earth visited Maragogipinho, a village in the town of Aratuípe in Brazil, in 2017 as part of the Toxic Sites Identification Program (TSIP), the team found lead concentrations in the soil as high as 44,500 ppm (the EPA level … Continue reading →

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Keeping Two-Year-Old Dexter and His Friends Safe From Lead Poisoning in Pampanga, Philippines

Posted on August 13, 2018 by M. Sim

This blog post is from Indigo Golub, a communications intern at Pure Earth. She is currently undergoing a bachelors degree in History, Law, and Society at the American University of Paris. Meet Dexter. The two-year-old, seen here with his mom, … Continue reading →

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Lead Exposure Linked to 412,000 Deaths in US; On Par With Tobacco

Posted on March 14, 2018 by M. Sim

An important new paper from Dr. Bruce Lanphear, a member of the Pure Earth Leadership Council, and a Commissioner on The Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health, reveals that cardiovascular impacts of lead are under-estimated by a factor of 10. While stunning, this revelation did … Continue reading →

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Getting Lead Out Of Sovetskoe (Kan), Kyrgyzstan

Posted on December 5, 2016 by M. Sim

This post comes from Alena Temnikova, Pure Earth’s regional coordinator in Kyrgyzstan.  When lead and zinc ore mining began in the 1950s, the first workers lived in tarpaulin tents and barracks. Then houses were built and the town of Sovetskoe (recently renamed … Continue reading →

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Protecting Children By Cleaning Up Lead-Contaminated Yards in Kabwe

Posted on November 7, 2016 by M. Sim

  This post is from Lara Crampe, Pure Earth’s regional director for Southeast Asia.  She is currently in Zambia working with the team on the second phase of Pure Earth’s remediation project in the Chowa neighborhood of Kabwe. This month our … Continue reading →

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