Clean water transforms communities.

  1. •884 million people in the world do not have access to safe water. This is roughly one in eight of the world’s population.

  2. •1.8 million children die every year as a result of diseases caused by unclean water and poor sanitation. This amounts to around 5000 deaths a day. (UNDP)

  3. •The simple act of washing hands with soap and clean water can reduce diarrheal diseases by over 40%.

  4. •Water-related disease is the second biggest killer of children worldwide, after acute respiratory infections like tuberculosis.

  5. •40 billion working hours are spent carrying water each year in Africa.

  6. •Households in rural Africa spend an average of 26% of their time fetching water, and it is generally women who are burdened with the task.

We cry out to God and ask Him to heal our land, to heal our circumstances, to heal our finances. But before He can do any of that, He must heal our hearts. We are designed with a desire to create and to transform, but have learned how to consume and rarely do anything other than that. This is a time for us to think not of ourselves, but of others, and in doing that, find the reason that we were made and be healed.

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