Water and Sanitation

Because Compassion partners with local evangelical churches to deliver its programs, people are drawn to the gospel message naturally as their children benefit from improved nutrition and health, accelerated learning and enhanced social development. Because Compassion’s local church partners include hygiene education as part of every sanitation intervention, the children receive the maximum benefit from…

Every day, 1,553 children die from diarrhea caused by poor sanitation and hygiene. (www.one.org/international/issues/water-and-sanitation/) 600 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa alone lack access to adequate sanitation facilities. (www.one.org/international/issues/water-and-sanitation/) 11 percent of deaths in children under 5 are caused by diahrrea worldwide. (United States Agency for International Development. “Key Facts and Figures Child Survival.”) 1 in…

When children have access to safe water, adequate sanitation facilities and proper hygiene education, their health improves, feelings of self-worth and security are raised, family expenses are lowered, and children experience both the health and energy to learn, grow and achieve their dreams. When this happens … life changes for the better. With access to…

Adequate sanitation is a vital link in the “safe water chain” that stretches from an improved water source to a child’s mouth to eventual disposal. Safe water access can be practically made meaningless in preventing disease if children do not have use of appropriate sanitation facilities nor have knowledge of good hygiene practices. Children living…