Dig toilets, not graves – keep the world clean, support WaterAid

Hello, my name is Izzi. I will be talking to you about my chosen charity WaterAid. Trying to stop lack of sanitation in the world is a hard job, but WaterAid is making it possible. You reading this blog could change a family’s life. Providing villages, schools and family’s with clean water and sanitation WaterAid needs your help to keep this world healthy, which is why I am writing this blog, that’s what I am here to explain.

2.5 billion People don’t have access to adequate sanitation and 60million children per year are born into homes with poor sanitation. This should stop. No one should be born into a world not being able to access water that isn’t dirty and germ ridden. Here is Orke’s story.

Orke Otta and her seven children live in Abba Roba, in the Konso district of Ethiopia. She told us that before WaterAid started working in her village, her family suffered from giardia, a parasite transmitted in dirty water, which causes chronic diarrhoea. A round trip to collect water took around four and a half hours, and Orke's children would often have to wait until someone had collected water for their first drink of the day. People from the village had been bitten by snakes and died, or fallen and injured there selves when collecting water. Orke had to make the journey even while pregnant. Without water Aids help Orke would have died. WaterAid can only carry on to save lives with your donations and support.

Many other Women in Orke’s village go through this, losing count of how many months and days they have been pregnant so still collect water. They had no choice.
It would be amazing if you could leave a comment in Support of my charity answering the following questions.

• Do you now feel more informed
• Would you consider doing the following – Donating, join a fundraiser (London to Paris) or simply tell friend and family
• Have you heard of this charity before

To find out more about my charity and more fundraising events go to www.wateraid.org

Thank you so much for your time spent. Leave your country and hometown when leaving a comment.
Izzi