Thank you

Every child should have safe water. You’re helping to bring clean water to children like Ismatara. You’re also helping to improve hygiene and sanitation, so families can flourish.

Ismatara’s story

Thank you

Every child should have safe water. You’re helping to bring clean water to children like Ismatara. You’re also helping to improve hygiene and sanitation, so families can flourish.

Ismatara’s story

Clean water is one of life’s essentials, but one that millions of people go without. As the largest non-governmental provider of water in the developing world, World Vision is committed to reaching more people with clean water, improved sanitation and hygiene.

How we can achieve this

With the help of generous supporters like you, World Vision has been changing lives by improving access to water, sanitation and hygiene. Our work tackles the problem from all angles. We can help provide equitable access to toilets, wells, boreholes, water tanks and taps. But we also help ensure long-term success by working with the community to promote hygiene and offer training.  

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, World Vision provides school hygiene kits to help keep children healthy.

Democratic Republic of Congo: School hygiene kits help children like Daniela to keep healthy.

In Laos, World Vision is bringing clean water close to homes so children can easily wash their hands.

Laos: A toilet close to home makes life easier for children like Souksada.

After the Central Sulawesi earthquake in Indonesia, families get clean water from a World Vision water point.

Indonesia: Afriani and her son Reza get clean water at an evacuation post after the Central Sulawesi earthquake.

The impact you’re part of

Water

466,000 people in Ethiopia and 52,786 people in Bangladesh gained access to clean water

Sanitation

1,167 villages in Ethiopia and 15 in Bangladesh were declared “open defecation free”

Hygiene

342,886 people in Ethiopia participated in hygiene awareness campaigns
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Rohingya refugees access clean water

 

Eight-year-old Ismatara lives in the world’s largest refugee settlement, in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. She fled here with her family when violence broke out in Myanmar in 2017. 

Ismatara used to walk long distances to collect water, climbing the camp’s steep hills with a heavy aluminium can. The water was dirty and made her sick. 

Now, a new well near her house serves 100 families – about 500 people. “I can drink water and bathe easily now,” she says.

 

Drinking water from the tube well doesn’t give me stomach pain and diarrhoea. It’s safe!"

– Ismatara, an eight-year-old Rohingya refugee

Thank you for your continued support

You’re making an incredible difference. With your help, World Vision is reaching one new person with clean water every 10 seconds. We hope you’ll keep working with us towards a world where all children have access to clean water. 

 

Help change more lives

 

Improving water, sanitation and hygiene is just one part of community development. You can also donate to our other program areas, including education, emergencies, health, livelihoods and supporting Indigenous Australians.


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