Dirty water kills 72,000 children under the age of five each year.
That’s almost 200 kids every single day. Old enough to attend kindergarten,
these little ones never even make it to school. All because the water they sip
after a meal or playtime preys on their bodies, robbing them of the chance to
have a childhood or a future.
Yet, their mothers, sisters, aunts and grandmothers
walk for 200 million collective hours every day, looking for water. Carrying
buckets as heavy as 34 kilos, these women walk 6 kilometres on an average
roundtrip to fetch water. In what they manage to find, faecal contamination is
often a given, since goats, cows, and camels tramp through the same water. Setting
in motion the never-ending cycle of disease, malnutrition and even loss of
life.
The trouble is when we read numbers like 72,000, we
have a tendency to shut down. It’s hard to imagine the suffering that water
insecurity inflicts upon children who suffer due to water-borne illnesses and
of the mothers who lose their children to such diseases. So, let’s start with
one. Because one more child with clean water brings 72,000 down to 71,999. And
one by one we can bring clean water to children across the globe.
Atro is a good example. He is no longer one of the 72,000 under-fives at the
risk of water-related diseases and can now enjoy his childhood the way he
should.
Sustainability is at
the heart of everything we do
Here’s the good news; the water
crisis is solvable, and we know how to bring sustainable access to clean water
to those who need it. We recognize that the water we provide becomes the
life-source of the communities, so sustainability is at the heart of everything
we do. We monitor all our kiosks remotely on a real-time basis and secure water
revenue from each kiosk to pay for repairs in case the need arises. In the
unlikely event of a kiosk malfunction, our technical teams restore kiosk
operations within three days, ensuring 95% uptime of each Maji site. You would
be amazed to learn how a sustainable supply of clean water changes everything
in the communities we serve. Our post-impact surveys reveal that water-borne
illness drop to a flat 0%, school and work attendance go up and women and girls
are able to access clean water just a short stroll away from their front doors.
Fundraising Target
It takes USD 10,000 to bring
sustainable safe water access to one community and only USD 10 to bring
lifetime access to one person. Give as much as you can and help us change lives
with sustainable access to safe water.
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