Outside visit to Aqua Box production
Thu, Oct 5th 2023 at 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Outside visit to Aqua Box production @ Cromford
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On Thursday 5 October,
a dozen Club Members were invited to visit the Aquabox Depot in Cromford, Derbyshire. There, we were welcomed and hosted by our Club friend, Roz Adamson, who had spoken at our Club just recently.
Roz briefed and escorted us into the depot, where we saw the very labour-intensive process of assembling the filters, before the packing of the Aquaboxes themselves with lots of vital survival equipment. Finally, we visited the storage, and delivery unit, where we had just missed a pick up of 250 Aquaboxes, bound for Syria, the last of 600 varied boxes to have left in the previous fortnight, some £112,000 worth.
Our Club has sponsored well over 100 Aquaboxes over the past 30 years, and we all left well impressed with what a difference our relatively small contribution has made to peoples lifes.
An excellent, and very humbling, visit.
AC
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