WATER CRISIS
EDUCATION
31% of schools lack access to safe water and adequate sanitation. Globally 443 Million days children are absent in school due to preventable water-related diseases each year.
Time lost from fetching water or being sick from waterborne diseases keeps many children out of school. Without kids being able to advance their education, cycles of poverty often continue generation after generation.
Once schools and families have water and sanitation facilities for girls, then children can stay in school and families can prosper.
WATER AND TIME
$260 billion is estimated economic loss due to poor water. In sub-Saharan Africa alone, women spend 40 billion hours a year walking for water.
Access to clean water gives communities more time to grow food, earn an income and go to school – all of that fights poverty!
WATER IS A WOMEN'S ISSUE
Women are responsible for 72% of the water collected in Sub-Saharan Africa. 6 hours each and every day girls spend collecting water.
23% of girls drop out the school when they start menstruating due to lack access to safe water and adequate sanitation in schools.
When a community gets water, women and girls get their lives back. They start businesses, improve their homes and take charge of their own futures.