Some people in the developing world must travel several miles daily to access clean water. This is usually women’s work. Girls as young as eight walk to wells where they pay a hefty part of their family’s income to fill twenty litre drums, which they then carry home. It’s back breaking, time consuming work, robbing them of their childhood. It’s also a major reason why they lose out on their education. After the water has been collected, there is simply no time left to go to school.
World In Need is working to ensure that communities have better, closer access to clean water that they can afford, such as our project to put a well at the Makeni school in Sierra Leone.
Bible reading: Psalm 107:35-38
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