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As citizens of the United States we have access to some of the cleanest water in the world, right at our fingertips. It’s as simple as walking into the kitchen and turning on the faucet, we never have to even think about it. Imagine for one day having to walk miles and miles just to fill a jug with contaminated water. Now imagine having to walk back home with as much as 40lbs of water on your head, only to get up and do it again every single day. This is reality for 783 million people in the world today. African countries are some of the most stricken by a water supply crisis, killing over 3.5 million people a year.
We are two sixth graders from Ada Harris Elementary school, in California. We are working on a school project, WTA, wildcats take action. We are to take action on a sustainability issue. We chose the water crisis in Africa.
The water crisis in Africa is urgent and tragic. 90% of water supply related deaths are children under the age of 5. Bacteria thrives in water that is stagnant and/ or untreated. This contaminated water leads to diarrhea, typhoid fever, cholera, e.coli, and many other life threatening diseases. Half of the worlds hospital beds filled with patients that have water related diseases. Infants and children are most at risk due to their underdeveloped immune systems. Families boil water to try and purify it if they can afford to, but this process does not always kill all of the contaminants.
The The John 4:14 Foundation is a Texas based organization that is working to address some of the need in Africa. Focusing their efforts in Uganda, they build Artisanal wells, one community at a time to source safe drinking water. They have now provided water for 300,000 people in counting. On their website, they have a geo tagged map with each well they have completed.
In Africa, 90% of water gathering is done by woman. "It is expected of them" states Bryce, the country operation coordinator for the John 4:14 foundation. African societies look at girls as weak and unimportant. They are expected to do all of the housework, which includes supplying the water. Women and girls often spend up to 6 hours a day fetching water. As a result half of all African girls receive little to no education. If clean water was readily available, these girls would be able to contribute to their families and communities through education and employment. It would lift some of these families out of poverty.
Families are also trapped in poverty by the water crisis due to the sickness and cost of medicine that drinking contaminated water brings. Medicine is expensive and hard to come by. Being sick also keeps you out of work, which can push a poor family to starvation and even death.
Please join us in our goal to pay for one well for The John 4:14 Foundation. The money we raise goes tords a well in Kaiti, Uganda. Please donate what you can today to our go fund me page, all the money goes directly to the John 4:14 foundation! Water is a human right, donate today, and help save a life! Every drop counts!
We are two sixth graders from Ada Harris Elementary school, in California. We are working on a school project, WTA, wildcats take action. We are to take action on a sustainability issue. We chose the water crisis in Africa.
The water crisis in Africa is urgent and tragic. 90% of water supply related deaths are children under the age of 5. Bacteria thrives in water that is stagnant and/ or untreated. This contaminated water leads to diarrhea, typhoid fever, cholera, e.coli, and many other life threatening diseases. Half of the worlds hospital beds filled with patients that have water related diseases. Infants and children are most at risk due to their underdeveloped immune systems. Families boil water to try and purify it if they can afford to, but this process does not always kill all of the contaminants.
The The John 4:14 Foundation is a Texas based organization that is working to address some of the need in Africa. Focusing their efforts in Uganda, they build Artisanal wells, one community at a time to source safe drinking water. They have now provided water for 300,000 people in counting. On their website, they have a geo tagged map with each well they have completed.
In Africa, 90% of water gathering is done by woman. "It is expected of them" states Bryce, the country operation coordinator for the John 4:14 foundation. African societies look at girls as weak and unimportant. They are expected to do all of the housework, which includes supplying the water. Women and girls often spend up to 6 hours a day fetching water. As a result half of all African girls receive little to no education. If clean water was readily available, these girls would be able to contribute to their families and communities through education and employment. It would lift some of these families out of poverty.
Families are also trapped in poverty by the water crisis due to the sickness and cost of medicine that drinking contaminated water brings. Medicine is expensive and hard to come by. Being sick also keeps you out of work, which can push a poor family to starvation and even death.
Please join us in our goal to pay for one well for The John 4:14 Foundation. The money we raise goes tords a well in Kaiti, Uganda. Please donate what you can today to our go fund me page, all the money goes directly to the John 4:14 foundation! Water is a human right, donate today, and help save a life! Every drop counts!