Interesting: The child who carried water to Africa

Ryan's Well Foundation. The struggle to bring clean water to Africa

May be many NGOs engaged in digging wells in Africa, or the supply of the liquid element in any other way, but surely none will be born in the same way that Ryan's WellFoundation.

The Canadian NGO was founded in 2001 with a clear objective: to raise funds to carrydrinking water to developing countries.

But it all started from the initiative of a child as young as 9 years, his name, RyanHreljac.

When Ryan was still in school, learned from his teacher that there were people in manycountries around the world who died due to scarcity of drinking water. The boy, struck by this, decided to raise money to pay for the construction of a well in Africa.Unfortunately, Ryan believed that the cost of this infrastructure was $ 70, when in fact,dig a hole slashing $ 2000. However, this did not deter him and continued looking for ways to get money. Thus, in 1999, could cover the construction of its first well in a village in Uganda.

Currently, Ryan's Well Foundation has managed to bring drinking water to over 700,000people in developing countries.

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Water in Africa

This video shows the conditions of Africans on water. Remember that the water should be a right common to all, global water.

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Projects in Cameroon:Construction of two wells in Makary

Makary is in a semidesert area, although water in aquifers. From June to Octoberthe communications with the capital are impractical. The soil is sandy, with clay layers below. The lack of drinking water has been one of the most terrible plaguesthis area and that has caused many deaths and many infectious diseases.Women must walk many miles to collect water and then transported in largecontainers on their heads. This water is contaminated by animals and excrement, lacking toilets and drains.

Population: the council of elders, local chiefs and traditional leaders, women's committee and youth committee, met in assembly and after long deliberationsidentified as a priority the construction of three wells in the three most populatedneighborhoods Makary to supply the population of clean drinking water. This wellis able to avoid hundreds of deaths and fought to secure the population of many diseases. With this great improvement in health, may devote their efforts to work collaboratively to develop their people.

beneficiaries

Both direct and indirect beneficiaries are the 250,000 people of Makary, since they all can enjoy the benefits of clean water nearby. Water is available to all who need it, without discrimination for reasons of ethnicity, gender or age.
People brought everything in their power:
-donation of the land, provided by the authorities,
-clearance work,
local-carrying materials for building stones, sand and water
-transport of other materials, (this was very expensive as they are within 300 miles of Makary).
Project Amount: $ 15,000.


Fuente:Africadirecto.org

2025 Will it be a world without water? Map of water in the world

Scientists and experts in geopolitics are sounding alarms with compellingstatistics and forecasts. In this apocalyptic scenario, the data are already talking about a future filled with conflict and arid. The idea pursues a clear goal: the numbers of victims by drinking water scarcity achieve capture the attention of theworld's most powerful leaders to begin to take note of what is coming.It is estimated that in 2025 some 1,800 million people will live in regions withabsolute water scarcity due to the imbalances caused by climate change. 

They believe that will continue to grow in intensity of droughts, floods, storms, meltingglaciers and the rise in sea levels.

A United Nations report finds that 1,197 million people lack access to water sources and 2,742 no sewage dumps. An investigation by the WorldwatchInstitute in 2005, estimates that in the "2015 about 3,000 million people-40percent of the estimated world population for those years living in countries withwater stress due to population growth." There is talk of water stress when water supply is far below the demand of the population. 

Currently, about 1,400 million people, mostly in developing countries are faced daily with the sharp swords ofthe environmental threat. 

Solutions to bring clean water to Africa

Without access to clean water, the town of Kakamega Forest in Kenya is particularlyvulnerable to disease and misery. WATER FOR CARBON initiative of the organizationVestergaard Frandsen has provided more than 1 million LifeStraw water filters to the local population.

Check this video from GOOD how clean water help this community prosper Kenya.