To die from thirst or to die from water-related diseases? Help Water Aid to stop this choice.

Thank-you very much for showing an interest in my petition. Trying to provide clean disease-free water to people in undeveloped countries is something I feel very strongly about! Many people have heard about how bad life is for families in Africa, South America, the Pacific Region and Europe. After you've read my petition, I hope you know a bit more about Water Aid and what they do – and maybe want to do something about it.

The normal life for a child in Africa would be much different to our own. They would be born (a lot of the time accidentally) into a family who are already suffering – let alone with another one to feed. Every day, they would drink dirty water. The older children would walk a few miles to collect water from dirty wells, and then bring back home in the dark. Not many children would go to school; it costs too much. So, instead they would stay at home doing house work for their large family. The water they drink can give them diseases such as diarrhoea and cholera. Their parents know that they are killing their children, but they have no other option. Also, to go to the toilet, they have to walk as far away from the house as they can and go in places where other people might then get water from. For children living there, it's amazing for them to get past being five years, let alone fifty years. Water Aid is trying to stop this.

Water Aid uses cheap and easy technology to provide clean water for people in places like Africa. £6 could pay for a bag of cement to make a well in Nepal. £17 could pay to rehabilitate a hand-pump in India. £45 could pay for a composting latrine in Uganda. £300 could pay for school sanitation in Bangladesh. £1535 could pay to protect a spring for 300 people in Madagascar. These are all easy to make, but Water Aid needs your help. If you don't donate then none of this can happen. All children in Africa would die, and more and more mothers crying. Please help by donating or telling other people about Water Aid and what they do. For

more information go to www.wateraid.org.uk

Thank-you so much again for looking at my petition. Please sign my petition if you believe that more should be done to provide water by supporting charities like Water Aid.