Ensure Children's Access to Safe Water
771 Million People – 1 in 10 – Lack Clean Water
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Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well. Proverbs 5:15
The health implications are staggering. 2 million people die every year due to water-borne diarrheal diseases, most of them children under the age of 5. The World Bank estimates that water-related illnesses kill more African children under age five than HIV/AIDS, malaria, and measles combined.
Water scarcity in Africa prevents many young children, especially girls, from attending school and receiving an education as they are expected to aid their mothers in water retrieval and household chores. A lack of clean water means the absence of sanitary facilities and latrines in schools, resulting in absenteeism 10-20 % among girls who have reached puberty. Adequate investment in drinking water and sanitation facilities would result in 272 million more school attendance days per year.
Women and girls are disproportionally burdened by scarcity of clean drinking water. In most African societies, women are seen as the collectors, managers, and guardians of water for household chores like cooking, washing, and child rearing. Because of these traditional gender labor roles, women spend around 60% of each day collecting water, which translates to approximately 110 million collective work hours every day and a decrease in the amount of time available for education, income generating activities, house-work, or childcare.
Over 40 Years, Our Partner has built 258 lasting transformational safe water projects for those who were thirsty and drinking filthy water. Much still needs to be done. You can choose the specific project you want to support.
Quality engineering, local ingenuity, community buy-in and dollars from people exactly like you bring clean water to villages. You can Save A Child with something as simple as Water.
I was thirst and you gave me something to drink. Mathew 25:35