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World Water Day: 2011

Published: 21 March 2011

  1. Dometilla from Papua New Guinea is delighted to be drinking clean water from a tap near her home, which World Vision helped her community to install.
  2. In Papua New Guinea, Burnela stands outside a ventilated improved pit latrine that World Vision helped her community to construct.
  3. At a school in Vietnam children are taught how to brush their teeth. Dental hygiene is a significant health issue for many people in Vietnam and the hope is that they will then educate their families and communities.
  4. A clean water source that World Vision helped this community in Uganda to install has improved children's health.
  5. 10-year-old Soth, from Cambodia, enjoys clean water from a well that World Vision helped her community to install.
  6. In emergencies, World Vision distributes water purifying sachets so families can clean contaminated water. (Myanmar)
  7. In Kenya, locals collect water in jerry cans from a World Vision Water Kiosk to carry back to their homes. This has been an example of the community working together with World Vision to find solutions for their water needs.
  8. During the dry season, Quimei from China had to walk half a kilometre to fetch water. With World Vision's help, she now has access to clean water at her school which means more time for learning as well as better health for her and her classmates.
  9. People who live in the Bihari Camp in Bangladesh face polluted streets, with dirty water and open sewerage, each day.
  10. Heavy jerry cans filled with water and long distances to walk mean children don’t have time or the opportunity to go to school, and are more vulnerable to attacks of violence and rape. (Ethiopia)

World Water Day, March 22, highlights that a lack of safe accessible water, poor sanitation and risky hygiene practices traps people, particularly women and children, in a vicious cycle of poverty. World Vision is working with communities to reduce this burden and improve the health and quality of life for poor communities. This World Water Day, Tuesday 22 March, World Vision Australia encourages you to use your influence to help end the water, sanitation and hygiene crisis in developing countries.

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Christa
Apr 12, 2012

I find it extremely sad that no one can freely send food or even just tapwater into developing countries; you have to have legal registration to do so. And while we...

Becca
Sep 21, 2011

It really disturbs me that people have to live like that and it's upsetting that some of them probably don't know any better :(

angel2hi2
Mar 23, 2012

What is more disturbing is that Water is Life, life is free and we drink freely, but others have to pay. In truth we all pay for clean water and clean air. ;{

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