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Clean water for every child - Drei Hilft supports UNICEF

Access to clean drinking water cannot be taken for granted. In many regions, particularly in the global South, climate change is exacerbating water shortages. Around 160 million children live in drought areas and suffer from extreme water shortages.

Not only the drought, but also the flood disasters, some of which destroy the infrastructure and others contaminate natural water sources, exacerbate the supply of clean drinking water. Contaminated drinking water makes people ill and is considered the number one cause of death in children under the age of five. Especially after natural disasters, diseases such as cholera threaten children's lives.

Around 115 million people rely on water from streams, rivers and lakes, which is heavily contaminated with germs. A situation that is unimaginable in Austria.

Due to the lack of a nearby water supply, many people have to walk for kilometres with water canisters to reach water sources that are often muddy or contaminated.

 

UNICEF improves the water supply worldwide

Water is the basis of life for every human being. UNICEF is therefore committed to ensuring that everyone has access to water and hygiene:

  • UNICEF is improving water supplies worldwide by building solar-powered water pumps, hand pumps and water pipes. Trained by UNICEF, the villagers maintain the systems themselves.
  • After natural disasters and during armed conflicts, water purification tablets supplied by UNICEF clean contaminated water and make it drinkable for children and their families. This prevents countless deaths every year.
  • UNICEF also builds toilets and sanitary facilities to improve hygienic conditions for children all over the world.

Drei Hilft is already supporting UNICEF with water pumps and water containers for 20 villages. This provides countless children and their families with clean drinking water, which on the one hand prevents avoidable deaths and on the other hand allows the village children to be children who no longer have to walk for kilometres to reach clean water.

UNICEF's aim is to reach children and families around the world with water projects in collaboration with partners such as Drei Hilft and thus make them more resilient to the consequences of the climate crisis.

Further information on Drei Hilft's activities can be found here: Drei Hilft, an initiative of Drei | Drei.at

 

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