According to Unicef, some 180,000 children under the age of five die every year – about 500 a day – in sub-Saharan Africa from diarrhoeal diseases linked to lack of access to drinking water.
Indigenous populations are constantly forced to fetch non-potable water from rivers. This water is very often infected during the rainy season. This causes several diseases.
Having no money to go to the hospital, many die for that.
This is why we are planning to build water wells or to find another system to allow these families to have access to drinking water.