Safe Water Access

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 church partners exercise ownership of each safe water access intervention, those improvements are better maintained and remain operational longer…

Globally, 1 in 10 people lack access to safe water. Every 90 seconds a child dies from water-related disease. http://water.org/water-crisis/water-sanitation-facts/ Globally, an estimated 2,000 children under the age of five die every day from diarrheal diseases and of these some 1,800 deaths are linked to water, sanitation and hygiene. http://www.unicef.org/media/media_68359.html Globally and collectively, women and children spend…

When families have access to an adequate supply of safe water, health improves, expenses are lowered, and children have both the capacity and the energy to learn, grow, and achieve their dreams. When this happens … life changes for the better. When families don’t have to buy firewood… > they have more money for food.…

Safe water is essential to healthy living; yet those living in poverty struggle to gain access to any water, let alone safe water. For children living in extreme poverty, there are multiple challenges to locating, collecting and purifying water. Children often walk long distances to fetch water: The time spent takes away from school and…