Last Update JAN 2nd, 2008
Melanosis hand Mel and Leocomel Gangrene
MELANOSIS KERATOSIS CARCINOMA GANGRENE 
more  heart rending pictures click here =  list = layout

DO THESE PICTURES MAKE YOUR HEART BLEED?

IF SO, READ ON!
PLEASE SUPPORT THE
ARSENIC FOUNDATION Inc.
 
TO HELP VICTIMS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA & PARTICULARLY BANGLADESH.
BRING A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO A PERSON FOR JUST $7 EACH

 PLEASE GIVE WHAT YOU CAN :-  $100;  $1000;  $10,000 OR OTHER.  (check one)

Last year your funds built 2 large INDIRA wells for 100 families each in Pabna and Eruain regions\
They also paid for a study showing that chlorination reduces bacteria even in the 2007 monsoon.

This year the plan is to renovate some wells and build a new large INDIRA well
We are still $3,500 short of the budget needed by February 2008
Can you help?
SEND CHECKS, STOCKS, BONDS ETC TO:-   
 ARSENIC FOUNDATION Inc,
15 BRACEBRIDGE ROAD,
NEWTON CENTRE, MA,  02454-1728,  USA.
E mail:  Dont send e mail to the foundation directly.  The name has been picked up by spammers and triggers spam filters  Instead, E mail the President personally
BANK  TRANSFERS to:-
Brookline Bank
PO Box 470469
Brookline, MA, 02447-9901
The information for direct transfer of appreciated stocks (DCP and account number) is available on request.

AIRLINE FREQUENT FLIER COUPONS ARE WELCOME.
THE ARSENIC FOUNDATION IS A NON PROFIT FOUNDATION AND A 501(C) 3 CORPORATION.
GIFTS ARE FREE OF US TAX

GIFTS THROUGH CHARITABLE AIF FOUNDATION (UK) ARE FREE OF UK TAXPRESENT PROJECTS OF THE ARSENIC FOUNDATION ARE:-

1. Support  for installation of sanitary surface waters, dugwells, pond sand filters, and river sand filters in Bangladesh. 
2.  Support for reliable measurement of arsenic and bacteria concentrations
BELOW ARE PICTURES OF A DUGWELL 
WITH PIPELINES PROVIDING  PURE WATER TO
PEOPLES'  KITCHENS FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY.
 for a capital cost of only $5 to $6 per person

Sanitary dugwell in Ruppur Associated storage tank. Lady drinking water from her kitchen tap


The present projects of the Foundation are:

(1)    Providing asistance in ensuring reliable measurement of arsenic concentrations and of coliform bacteria
(2)   Providing assistance for projects of providing sanitary surface waters, free of bacteria, by dugwells, pond sand filters or river sand filters.  
IN PARTICULAR OF ADVERTIZING IMPORTANCE OF CHLORINATION
(3)  Disseminating information about the projects on the arsenic website http://arsenic.ws

For more details of the dugwell project see the detailed paper here
For discussion of all remediation options see the remediation page of the website

 President and Treasurer :   

Dr Richard Wilson,    Mallinckrodt Research Professor of Physics, Harvard University
Secretary :
Dr David Christiani,  Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health
Directors : Dr Charles Harvey, Professor.  MIT
Dr Meera Smith ,  UC Berkeley
Dr Quasi Quamruzzaman,  Dhaka Community Hospital

The Board of Directors receive no salary

Other charities exist with similar aims but different locations.  
For example if you want to support new wells in West Bengal, you might consider PROJECT WELL

For a printable version of these two pages click here
To see a more detailed list of pictures on this website, click here.
More  photographs of Bangladesh victims are available in the photo exhibit on the worldbank website

Contact Information :

Richard Wilson, Mallinckrodt Research Professor of Physics. President and Treasurer