Cornwall charity helping with Ecuador water crisis

Cornwall based charity 'Shelterbox' have been providing much needed help to people in Ecuador following a massive earthquake.

The earthquake hit on April 16th causing damage to water systems leaving families without safe drinking water.

Flooding had already poisoned crops in an area called Portoviejo before the earthquake happened.

ShelterBox are trying to help by providing water filtration equipment and water carriers, which allow a family to make polluted water drinkable.

There are plans for 2,000 families to receive a mix of Shelter Kits, water filtration, mosquito nets, cooking equipment, and all-important solar lighting as the area has only limited power supplies.

Plans are urgently being made to ship all this equipment from Panama,