Give Amore is providing clean water wells in the communities of the children in our sponsorship program. While the child and their guardian directly benefit from the clean water well, usually an average of a 100 additional people in the community also benefit from it daily.
Unclean water is responsible for diseases such as cholera, guinea worm, tyhpoid, intestinal worms and many other diseases which kill more than 8 million people throughout the world each year.
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 80 percent of all sickness in the world can be blamed on unsafe water and poor hygiene, especially in the villages of Africa. These villages are being ignored and receive no attention from their government to provide them with this basic, life saving and life giving necessity.
Waterborn diseases include cholera, typhoid, amoebic and bacillary dysentary and many other diarrheal diseases.
Water-washed diseases are caused by poor personal hygience and skin or eye contact with contaminated water, including scabies, trachoma and flea, lice and tick-borne diseases.
Water-based-diseases are caused by parasites found in intermediate organisms that live in the contaminated water, including dracunculiasis, schistosomiasis and other helminths.
Water-related diseases are caused by insect vectors, especially mosquitoes that breed within the water. Diseases coming from this include dengue, filariasis, malaria, onchocerciasis, trypanosomiasis, and yellow fever.
The people in these rural communities have no other choice but to use this filthy water, unless others step up and provide them with access to clean water.
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