Diarrhea, diarrhea, diarrhea. You are bad. We must wipe you out.
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Water-Borne Diseases
Africare, African Well Fund and Batonga Foundation Launch WASH Project
BEMBEREKE (NOVEMBER 19, 2014) – Today is World Toilet Day. It may not be considered a polite dinner conversation topic, but ensuring access to clean water and sanitation facilities like latrines is one of the most important global public health issues.
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School Children in Malawi Receive Sanitation Facilities and Hygiene Education
Africare/Malawi’s Water, Sanitation & Hygiene project has brought sanitation facilities as well as hygiene education to hundreds of school children in the Mulanje district.
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A Ground-Breaking Experiment: Testing DEKA’s Slingshot™Water Purifier
Water is life. So when health clinics don’t have clean water, it’s a serious issue.
Uhuru Torch Lights Up Ipagala “B”
The Uhuru Torch is a Tanzanian national symbol meant to “bring hope where there is despair, love where there is enmity and respect where there is hatred.”
Fecal Matters
When Africare and Tanzania’s Ministry of Water conducted water quality tests at 15 target schools in the Dodoma Region, each school’s water source was found to be contaminated with fecal matter or coliform bacteria, an indicator of fecal pathogens.
African Well Fund
“African Well Fund has raised more than $1 million to provide clean, safe water to 300,000 people in more than 15 countries in the past 10 years.”
— Diane Yoder, African Well Fund Board Member