- Water affects everything; education, health, poverty and especially women and children.
- In different places around the world, women and children spend more time collecting water than any other activity they do in the day. Many walk up to three hours a day to the nearest swamp, pond or river to gather water that’s been sitting out in the open, exposed to all kinds of germs.
- When they make it home, the little water they’ve collected isn’t clean. Is contaminated with germs that cause diarrhea, dehydration, even death.
- Children, especially babies, are affected most by these germs… According to the organization Charity Water, about every nineteen seconds a mother loses one of her children to a water related illness.
- There are solutions. A safe water project near an affected area means less disease; therefore, less money spent on medicine and more hours each day to a person’s life. This time is opportunity. It’s freedom to get an education, to work or start a business, to raise a family.
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Art Credits: Albanian painter Agim Sulaj
Image Via: Anti politique mondiale
Info Source: Charity Water; Water Changes Everything.
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