Water is vital to our everyday lives and often something we take for granted but water not only keeps us alive but enhances our lives in many ways from the food we eat to our health and even our education and work.
785 million people globally don’t have access to clean water and many school children walk an average of 6km a day to get water that often is contaminated and unclean.
The impact water has on our lives can be seen in a rural village in Mozambique where World Vision funded a water supply system.
Every morning, children would walk several miles to the nearest river to collect water for their homes and school.
The water they were collecting was unclean and was making many villagers unwell. The lack of access to clean water in the village made accessing basic healthcare difficult as the hospital itself didn’t have clean water and children were unable to attend school full-time.
But fortunes changed for this community when they got a new water supply system supplying water to the school, the hospital and the community.
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