Give10: Help Acts for Water deliver clean, safe, accessible water to Ugandans.
It’s been a tough year for everyone, with varying hardships and challenges to face. One thing that we thankfully don’t need to worry about is clean water.
Over the past few months, we’ve been washing our hands obsessively (pass the moisturizer, please!) Now, can you imagine only having water that you walked 3 hours to the swamp for, to do it with?
Over 8.4 million people in Uganda live without clean, accessible drinking water. It has to be accessible so that the hourly walk for water can be shortened to minutes. For mothers, this means the risk of parasites and dangerous waterborne illnesses threatening the lives of their children. For young girls, it means walking kilometres every day with heavy cans down dangerous roads instead of going to school.
- 1 in 4 people in Uganda go without access to clean water.
- Most will walk a 6km round trip just to fetch water from a swamp.
- It’s the number one reason 1 in 4 girls don’t complete their schooling.
Water is everything: education, good health, gender equality, food security. Acts for Water is a local organization here in Vancouver that works directly with Ugandans to deliver clean, safe water. For just $10 a month for one year, you can help bring a lifetime of clean, fresh water to a child who currently goes without. Think about this – that’s literally less than we typically spend on coffee in one week. Just $2 provides clean, fresh water to 1 child for 1 year; $10 a month for 1 year brings that same child clean water for life.
Clean water is the best way to help children transform their future. This summer, as kids in Uganda, just like here, prepare to go back to school, Acts wants to:
- Break ground on a project to bring clean water to over 2000 children, women and men.
- Build a latrine block for 800 students
- Teach soap making to 200 women
- Train Village Health Officers to teach thousands of families the basics of health and sanitation.
To join Acts for Water in helping to make the biggest impact in Uganda, consider making a donation today.