What is it?
Water Health Life helps the world’s poorest communities to secure long-term access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation.
Quick facts
| Location | Wherever there is need, in Africa, Asia and South America
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| Focus | - Vulnerable children, women and families
- Safe drinking water and sanitation
- Preventing disease
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| Price | From $25 a month or through one-off donations
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| Activity | - Building wells, bores, toilets and rainwater tanks
- Protecting springs and other water sources
- Educating communities
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| Support Methods | A monthly or one-off donation |
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| Supporter Benefits | - Water Health Life newsletter
- World Vision News magazine
- Help secure long-term access to safe drinking water and sanitation for the world’s poorest people
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What is Water Health Life?
Water Health Life helps the world’s poorest communities to secure long-term access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation.
Water Health Life provides long-term solutions including:
- Protecting springs
This prevents the spread of waterborne diseases. - Drilling boreholes
Boreholes enable communities to collect water easily and safely using a pump. - Sinking wells
Sinking a shallow well means the well is only deep enough to reach the water table. It is covered to prevent surface contamination and reduce evaporation. - Building toilets
Toilets dramatically improve sanitation and reduce the spread of disease. - Building rainwater tanks
Rainwater tanks allow communities to access reliable drinking water, even in times of drought. - Training communities in water source maintenance and sanitation
Training is a great way to ensure improvements are sustained in the long term.
Who does Water Health Life help?
Children under threat of water-borne diseases... Children in poor communities often get sick from drinking dirty water. Many die from diseases like typhoid, and afflictions such as intestinal worm infection and diarrhoea. Every day, over 4,000 children die as a result of drinking dirty water and poor sanitation.(UN Human Development Report 2006)
Children, women and families who must travel long distances to collect dirty water... In some poor communities there is no local source of clean water and there are no sanitation facilities, like covered toilets. Children and women must walk long distances to collect dirty water, which means that children can’t go to school and women can’t pursue other work. When clean, safe water is available close by, children can be healthy and go to school, and women can pursue other activities.
Donate today and...
Your monthly pledge will help World Vision provide long term, life changing improvements for children and whole communities. These improvements might include drilling wells, installing pumps in villages, installing water treatment equipment or building toilet blocks in schools.
A single gift can also make a tremendous difference in people’s lives. For example:
- A gift of $50 could provide jerry cans to help 8 families collect water
- A gift of $100 could help protect the health of 8 families via the distribution of hygiene kits or by providing up to 5,000 water purification tablets
- A gift of $250 could enable us to build safe, hygienic household toilets for up to 5 families.
Water Health Life projects
- Abim Water and Sanitation Project, Uganda
- 'Springs of Life' Water and Sanitation Project, Burundi
- Sobat Area Rehabilitation Program, Sudan
- NE Masaka Water and Environmental Project, Uganda
- Huong Ho Community Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Project, Vietnam
What will you receive?
Water Health Life newsletter Water Health Life supporters will receive regular updates from projects underway in East and Southern Africa. Find out how you’re making a real difference to the world’s poorest communities.
World Vision News magazine Throughout the year, Water Health Life supporters will receive World Vision News magazine. Read stories about the world’s poorest children and updates on World Vision's work around the world.
Help secure long-term access to safe drinking water and sanitation for the world’s poorest people
When you support the Water Health Life program you can be sure you’re helping to provide healthy water and sanitation for the world’s poorest people.
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