Projects
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GEORGIA
National response plan to lower blood lead levels
Location: Nationwide
Duration: 2018 - ongoing
Implementors: UNICEF and Government of Georgia
Donors: Government of Estonia, UNICEF, Clarios Foundation, USAID and The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA)

Children exposed to lead often suffer difficulties with learning
BANGLADESH
Informal lead-acid battery recycling site remediation
Location: Kathgora, Bangladesh
Duration: 2017 - 2019
Implementors: Pure Earth, Geology Department of the Dhaka University, Department of Environment, Ministry of Environment and Forests, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B)
Donors: USAID, European Commission, and The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
In 2018, Kathgora housed an informal lead-acid battery recycling operation that left soil lead levels at 250 times the safe limit. All the children tested had elevated blood lead levels. Pure Earth and local workers disposed of the battery waste and scraped the ground, recovering it with clean soil. About 18 months later, local children’s blood lead levels had reduced by 42 per cent.

INDONESIA
Assisting the government with lead exposure crisis response
Location: Pesarean, Tegal, Indonesia
Duration: 2015 - ongoing
Implementors: Pure Earth, Komite Penghapusan Bensin Bertimbel (KPBB), Ministry of Environment – Indonesia, Badan Pengkajian dan Penerapan Teknologi (BPPT) and Regency of Bogor
Donors: Asian Development Bank (ADB), Danish Aid Agency (DANIDA)
In Central Java, home-based lead-acid battery recycling without designated disposal sites left children playing in village slag piles and 88 per cent of people tested with elevated blood lead levels. In 2015, Pure Earth began identifying contaminated sites and their risks. In 2018, the first cleanup was undertaken in a village school yard and further government remediation plans are underway.
Remediation of contaminated sites is one of our greatest tools
GHANA
Promising pilot project for cleaner e-waste recycling
Location: Agbogbloshie, Accra, Ghana
Duration: 2013 - 2016
Implementors: Pure Earth, City University of New York (CUNY), School of Public Health, EPA Ghana, Ghana Health Service, Ghana Ministry of Environment, Global Alliance for Health and Pollution (GAHP), Greater Accra Scrap Dealers Association (GASDA), Green Advocacy Ghana (GreenAd), National Youth Authority, United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
Donors: United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), European Commission, Global Alliance for Health and Pollution (GAHP), Addax & Oryx Foundation
Pilot projects can lead the way to a future free from lead exposure
MEXICO
Educating the public to create and buy lead-free pottery
Location: Morelos, Mexico
Duration: 2015 - ongoing
Implementors: Pure Earth, Comisión Federal para la Protección contra Riesgos Sanitarios (COFEPRIS), Fondo Nacional para el Fomento de las Artesanías (FONART), INSP - National Institute of Public Health
Donors: Clarios Foundation, HSBC Mexico, Fundación Merced, United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), Meridian Bioscience
Educating on the dangers of lead exposure works in parallel to teaching new methods
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A STRATEGIC APPROACH
Our four-part strategy for protecting every child’s potential involves:
- Mobilization of the country-level collective action that can cut a clear path to preventing childhood lead exposure.
- Finding and addressing existing sources of lead exposure for children in low- and middle-income countries.
- Assisting governments with education, remediation and tools that will ensure responsible lead use and smelting.
- Encouraging private businesses and organizations to join our mission and take action in a variety of ways.
HELP US SOLVE A GLOBAL PROBLEM
With your help – and the help of a network from across the world – we can create a safer world for children. A future free from lead exposure. Join us.
Preventing childhood lead exposure
With an initial focus on implementing projects in Bangladesh, Georgia, Ghana, Indonesia and Mexico.
STORIES FROM THE FIELD
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International lead and battery associations join protecting every child’s potential
New York, USA, 1 June 2022 – Four battery associations representing the entire lead battery value chain are joining the Protecting Every Child’s Potential (PECP) initiative, …
Strategic partnerships to prevent children’s exposure to lead
22 March 2022, GREATER ACCRA – Akosua Mensah, a factory worker at a wet cell recycling plant in the Greater Accra, feeling out of breath, …
Solving the Mystery of Widespread Lead Poisoning in Georgian Children
Tblisi, Georgia, 3 May 2022 – In 2019, the Republic of Georgia faced a childhood lead poisoning crisis. A national survey had revealed that 41% …