Building Wells, Boreholes, and water purification: ................................................................................................................................................................................ In Haiti, reports show that about one-third of all Haitian children die before they reach the age of five, with 60 percent of all these deaths directly related to malnutrition and diarrheal disease. In a country like Liberia, a rather small West African nation which has suffered severe loss due to a 14-year civil war, the effects of this water crisis are especially significant. Nearly 70 percent of its citizens drink dirty water from untreated wells, rivers, ponds, creeks and swamps. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, rebel fighting has driven some 1.2 million people from their homes, with 800,000 people from North Kivu province alone. The UN says that cholera has reached epidemic magnitudes in the rather poor country. Our dream is to reach countries all over the world one at a time but we need you to join us and together we will make it a reality. Our plan is to join forces with rural communities and villages in these less fortunate regions to dig wells, boreholes and other water purification techniques so that thousands of families can have access to clean drinking water. The U.N. Development Program and Millennium Development Goal is designed to reduce by half the proportion of the world’s people without access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation by 2015. This would result in safe drinking water for roughly 450 million more people and basic sanitation for approximately 700 million more people, saving more than one million children’s lives over the next decade. To millions of innocent people caught in intolerable situations all over the world, the lack of clean water is not only an environmental problem, but a matter of life and death. |