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In the U.S. an average person uses between 52 and 79 gallons of water a day, piped into their homes. Imagine if you had to carry water to your home. How much could you carry? Certainly not 52 gallons per family member. In parts of rural Africa a family uses on average one and a half to two and a half gallons of water per person – the amount women and girls can carry on their heads. |
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In India hundreds of millions of women and girls must use isolated fields and thickets as their toilet under cover of darkness. From dawn to dusk they must “hold it” for lack of a household or public toilet. The women who used the wooded area in this photo as their toilet asked Wherever the Need to build a public women’s toilet on this site. We found a donor who wanted to help and now there is an eco-sanitation toilet made from compressed earth bricks on the same location. (photo on the right). |
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One-third of India’s villages lack ready access to water and must take it wherever they find it, often from polluted ponds and rivers. The same is true in Africa. Consequently, worldwide 3,900 children die every day from water-borne diseases. Wherever the Need provides clean water, storage tanks, rainwater harvesting systems and toilets to villages, schools and orphanages in India and Africa in a sustainable way. We welcome your support and can suggest projects that need funding. Some projects are designed to help one family and others benefit a whole village. |
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The Indian government estimates that at least 12 million children are homeless and must survive on what they can beg or steal from the streets. Another 12 million are virtually enslaved as child workers. Wherever the Need is building new dormitories for two Indian orphanages that give love and shelter to street children. We seek support for two programs, The Children’s Project School (photo on the right) and Technology for the People, that provide education and care to destitute Indian children. We also seek funds to buy sewing machines for vocational schools that educate disabled and lower caste girls. |
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Now they have water in their village. |
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The wells went dry in Kondakendapalli. We hired a drilling truck. |
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Whether from natural disaster, racial and caste discrimination or unemployment, millions of people in India live in rag tents where they are susceptible to epidemics, sexual exploitation, hunger, filthy conditions, extreme cold and heat, or seasonal flooding, with no means of escape. WTN is building 130 homes in Sri Lanka for victims of the tsunami (photo on right) and 56 homes in India for an untouchable caste community. Our focus is women and children in developing countries, the most at-risk population in the world. |
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