Supply Clean Water to a Village
Access to clean water is a basic human right and a prerequisite for improving the health of poor communities. Yet an estimated 1.1 billion people around the world, almost four times the population of the United States, do not have access to safe water.
The costs of lack of clean water to health and to economic and social development are incalculable. Diseases spread by unsafe water cause 3 million deaths a year. Young children are the most likely to suffer and die from these diseases. Diarrhea, primarily a disease of dirty water, is the biggest killer of children under five in poor countries, resulting in 4,000 preventable deaths each day, 1.8 million per year. At any given time, almost half of all people living in developing countries are suffering from a health problem caused by lack of safe water and sanitation that undermines their ability to study or work. Every year, children miss more than 443 million school days because of water-related illnesses.
Water projects are one of the most effective ways of saving lives and one of the most cost-effective investments in disease prevention. Potable water projects typically reduce diarrheal disease by 30 to 50 percent, with even higher reductions during water-borne epidemics, such as cholera and typhoid. Every $1 invested in water and sanitation yields between $3 and $4 in reduced medical costs and increased productivity.
Partners In Health (PIH) has long recognized that dirty water is a major cause of preventable disease and death, as well as of demands on clinical resources. About one-third of all Haitian children die before they reach the age of five, with 60 percent of all these deaths directly related to malnutrition and diarrheal disease. To Haiti's poor majority, the lack of clean water is not only an environmental problem, but a matter of life and death.
In 1985, PIH brought clean water to a village in Haiti as a flagship project. In one fell swoop this project eliminated child deaths caused by diarrhea in the village. PIH learned that while many of the challenges to improving health in Haiti would take decades to address, making clean water available can save and improve lives right away. During the past two decades, PIH worked hard to achieve this goal, constructing and repairing more than a dozen water systems in several towns and villages in Haiti's Central Plateau. Now you can help in this life-saving, life-changing work!
- $28.00 funds one day of clean water for a village in Haiti.
- Or, fund the complete construction of one entire well in a rural area of Haiti, for $10,000.
We recognize that not many individuals will be able to give so generously. We are offering the $10,000 tier in the hopes that a school, church, synagogue, community service organization, or company would like to pool individual contributions towards the greater good.
Partners In Health (PIH) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation whose mission is to provide a preferential option for the poor in health care. Through service, training, advocacy, and research, and by establishing long-term relationships with sister organizations, PIH strives to achieve two overarching goals: to bring the benefits of modern medical science to those most in need of them and to serve as an antidote to despair.
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