Imagine knowing if a child drank from your nearest water source …they would die.
For far too many people living in extreme poverty around the world, the water they need just to survive… can also kill them.
The water crisis is devastating for families who live with the daily threat of being infected by lethal diseases like diarrhoea, cholera, dysentery, typhoid and polio.
Diarrhoea caused by waterborne diseases can be deadly for people of all ages, but the speed at which it can kill small children is truly terrifying. Often within just a matter of hours.
Please will you help bring clean Water For Life to communities facing a deadly water crisis?
These numbers are devastating…
Globally, 600 million children don’t have safe drinking water
More than 1 billion children don’t have safely managed sanitation, such as proper toilets
Nearly 700 million children can’t access basic hygiene services like a place to wash their hands
Close to 2 billion people worldwide use drinking water contaminated with faeces
Over 500,000 deaths each year are estimated to be linked to diseases related to dirty water
Every day, almost 4,000 people die from diseases attributable to unsafe water, hygiene and sanitation, with 1,000 of these deaths among children under five.
People with disabilities living in poverty are at greater risk because it’s so much harder for them to reach or access safe water. Often the water that is available is located some distance away, making the trek nearly impossible, and if the water source is located in muddy areas, or requires stepping up to a well – people using wheelchairs get stuck and simply cannot access the water.
This is a deadly crisis that cannot wait. Every day without clean water is costing lives.
You can bring clean Water For Life to the worst affected communities.
Help ensure the most vulnerable people won’t get left behind in a water crisis. You can do this by supporting CBM’s WASH program.
WASH stands for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene. It’s a special program providing clean water boreholes and hand-washing stations, while also educating people on sanitation and hygiene practices to prevent deadly diseases.
It means, every day, you can help save a child’s life!
Here’s how you can help children, adults and entire communities get access to safe, clean water for life.
- You can help bring water points to a remote village that is accessible for people with disabilities.
- You can help bring hand-washing stations to an isolated school.
- You can help bring a safe water well to a community forever.
Communities like Hussain’s cannot go another day without safe water.
In Hussain’s community, women and children have to walk long distances to get water from either a man-made lake or a hand-dug open well.
Not only can the water they collect make them very sick, but it is also extremely dangerous to walk this journey alone.
Now however, thanks to wonderful CBM supporters, Hussain’s community are part of a CBM WASH program. Your support today can help set up a water committee, where people can learn about hygiene and receive instruction on how to maintain the borehole and other facilities that are coming to their community through your support.
But there are so many more communities like Hussain’s still struggling to survive extreme poverty and facing an impossible choice — to go without water altogether, or take their chances drinking the only water that’s available. Water that’s unsafe.
Please, will you help stop this tragedy for more communities?
