While you and I are pretty much used to opening a tap whenever we want a nice long drink of water, there are around 748 million individuals across the planet that have yet to experience this type of luxury.

In excess of 840,000 people die annually from waterborne illnesses, lack of sanitation and hygiene-related causes.

World Water Relief is dedicated to combating this crisis and bring about meaningful and lasting change in millions of lives by installing water filtration systems, training locals on maintaining the systems, ongoing maintenance, and hygiene education.

Safe water and sanitation practice is taught in schools together with hygiene & health-related skills, empowering children to become change-agents in the home and communities. This education significantly increases student attendance and learning achievement, reduces hygiene-related disease, and also contributes to personal dignity and gender equality.

It is important that school children are taught the value of water, sanitation and personal hygiene because:

  • Diarrhoea is globally the second biggest killer of children under the age of five years;
  • Approximately 40% of diarrhoea cases in children are from transmission in schools rather than homes;
  • Around 443 million school days are lost annually as a result of water-related diseases
  • An estimated 33% of school-aged children in the developing world are infested with intestinal worms. These illnesses rob children of school attendance and achievement, and are underlying causes of malnutrition and stunting.

Educating children about water and its importance to Life should by rights be part of the education syllabus in every country, not only in developing countries, as it is up to all of us to care and to save water wherever possible.

Children need to learn about water, about nature, about climate change, about personal hygiene, about the need to save water and given as much information as possible about being eco-conscious so that they can maintain the planet and pass it down to their next generation in good stead.

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