WATER SCHOOL
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EIN: 46-0525417
BASED: Washington, DC, United States
CHARITY WEBSITE: Water School
The Problem
According to the World Health Organization, a lack of safe drinking water and adequate sanitation is the leading cause of illness in developing countries. 3.5million people (1.5million of those are children) die from inadequate access to clean drinking water and poor hygiene each year. These alarming facts are what inspired the creation of Water School.
Our Mission
To provide simple, safe, strategic and sustainable clean water solutions to the developing world.
Our Solution
SANITATION & HYGIENE EDUCATION + SODIS = CLEAN WATER FOR LIFE
Our Approach
We DO NOT drill wells, pass out chlorine tablets or provide complicated filter systems.
We DO EMPOWER communities to empower themselves through a 3-Step education program.
We DO TEACH people about good hygiene and sanitation
We DO TRAIN people on SODIS (solar water disinfection)
SODIS is a simple technology that involves filling clean plastic bottles with contaminated waterand laying them in the tropical sun for 6 hours. This produces clean, drinkable water.
Our Impact
- Up to 86% reduction in dysentery cases in children
- Up to 67% reduction in diarrhoeal cases in children
- Up to 23% increase in school attendance
- Uganda’s largest rural hospital closed its dysentery wing due to lack of patients
Our Results
Since 2007 Water School has given over 400,000 people safe water and improved sanitation, saving the lives of some of the world’s most vulnerable people.
CLEAN WATER FOR LIFE. IT REALLY IS THAT SIMPLE.
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