Thursday, March 22, 2012

Africare's Work on Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene

Africa does not have a shortage of water; the problem is they can not use the water they have. African communities lack the money to build wells, pumps, canals, and so on. Sub-Saharan countries only provide about 26% coverage. Also, 10 Sub-Saharan African counties are listed amongst the top 12 worst countries that supply sanitation to their civilians by the World Health Organization.
Diseases are rampant in these parts of Africa and are primarily caused by the unsafe drinking water. This is widely seen as Africa’s biggest health threat because it causes 80% of sicknesses and results in 5,000 childhood deaths. That’s about 208 children an hour and about 3 children a minute. The lack of clean water, bathrooms, is much more important than the need of education, political development and so on because without the basic necessities to survive, these other needs are irrelevant. If families and children die at such a rapid rate, there will be nobody to educate or run for political office.
Africare has constructed hand dug wells, dams, and began large scale river-based irrigation schemes since its creation. This was one of the first problems Africare tackled and have been doing a great job since. Because of Africare’s help with creating clean water sources, it has become an entry point for village and government demand.
Africare has also educated Africans on how to use these wells and clean water sources to help promote self hygiene as well as proper disposal of feces. This has reduced the amount of water-born diseases and diarrhea. Setting up clean water sources near homes has eliminated the need for women and girls to travel miles to collect clean water for their family. Clean restroom facilities in schools has increased attendance rate which will hopefully result in more successful and educated students rising from these schools and maybe one day making many of these African countries become world-powers.

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