Clean Water Project
In 2017 we installed a safe drinking-water well and finished a kitchen, bathrooms, and showers. Our focus was clean water and improved hygiene for the children and teaching staff at Faith Heart School. To complete our campus vision, we are in need of adding another gravity-fed water tank and piping to to the Main Hall Activity Center.
*Each year about 829,000 people die from diarrhea linked to unsafe water, poor sanitation, and lack of handwashing
*Contaminated water spreads diseases like cholera, dysentery, hepatitis A, typhoid, and polio.
*In 8 of 10 households without water at home, women and girls collect it—jerrycans can weigh over 40 lb when full.
*335 million schoolgirls lack water and soap to wash when changing sanitary products.
*About 1 million deaths a year are linked to unclean births; better water, sanitation, and hygiene in healthcare could prevent roughly 26% of neonatal deaths and 11% of maternal deaths (WHO/UNICEF 2019).