Clean water isn’t a luxury—it’s a basic human right. Ebenezer African Hearts helps provide communities in need with localised clean water sources and sanitation facilities. We also work with individual community members to promote local education in basic hygiene practices and waterborne disease prevention. This not only helps to reduce the spread of disease, it also relieves children—especially girls—of their daily treks to collect water, freeing them to attend school. Why? For many developing communities around the Tanzania, the same water source that’s used to collect household water for drinking and cooking is also used as a dumping ground for human and animal waste. Often remote, these water sources are also plagued with bacteria and contaminants. It’s no wonder, then, that 80% of illnesses in the developing world are linked to poor water and sanitation. What’s more, these stagnant, unclean sources of water are frequently located many miles from communities, forcing women and children to spend hours each day hauling back-breaking loads of water to their homes. Without a reliable, sustainable source of clean water, children are either too ill or don’t have time to go to school. And so, the cycle of poverty continues.
Posted on: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 21:51:40 +0000
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