Posts Categorized: Clean Water

How the Hunger Crisis Is Affecting Families By Amanda DeWitt “It is easy for us to wake up and eat breakfast. Before it was not like that.” When an Unto® team member recently asked a family in The Gambia how the gift of meals impacted their lives, they explained it simply. Now they get to… Read more »

How a Clean Water Well Allows Families to Grow Nutritious Food By Amanda DeWitt People are hungry and thirsty — and the two go hand-in-hand. Experts estimated that 2.2 billion people do not have adequate access to safe drinking water. By 2025 up to half the world may live in water-stressed areas. Additionally, as many 811… Read more »

Why Sanitation Matters By Amanda DeWitt Water gives life — for more reasons than we sometimes consider. The World Health Organization (WHO) indicated that currently 19 percent of the world’s population lacks access to clean drinking water. And 22 percent of people are without basic handwashing facilities. Most of these people live in the toughest… Read more »

Why Water Filters Matter for People in the Toughest Places By Amanda DeWitt He clutches his cup of safe, clean water. The expression on his face says it all. For him the water in his cup — purified by a water filter — means life-giving hydration so his body can grow strong and healthy. It… Read more »

Clean Water Brings Hope for Children Living in the Toughest Places By Emily Pyatt You turn on the kitchen sink to fill a cup of water after spending time outside. You enjoy pasta for dinner, boiling the noodles in water. You take a bath or enjoy swimming in the pool on a hot summer day…. Read more »

Providing Safe, Clean Water in the Toughest Places By Amanda DeWitt Ask these women, and they will tell you — what they carry on their head is more than just a brightly colored bucket filled to the brim. Having a source of safe, clean water transforms their entire lives. Shortages of clean water and lack… Read more »

How Safe, Clean Water Transforms Entire Villages By Amanda DeWitt “Water is freedom to life,” says Maysa, a wife and mother in the African nation of Chad. “Before we had a water well in our village, there were only two things we could do,” she said. “We could walk 7 kilometers (4.5 miles) to try… Read more »

How Kindness Leads People to Living Water By Amanda DeWitt Mubita could hardly believe his eyes. The broken down well in his Zambian village finally worked. He had started to lose hope. People came to his village before, promising to repair the well. But the work was never done. When an Unto® local partner made a… Read more »

How Water Transforms Communities and Lives By Amanda DeWitt A child dies from a water-related illness every 21 seconds. A startling statistic, yet these are someone’s children. Someone’s grandchildren. Every day moms and dads in places like Africa face a terrible dilemma — giving their children drinking water that is contaminated. They have no choice…. Read more »

How Your Partnership Shares Living Water By Al Goff Grace Pule has seen firsthand the devastation that unsafe water brings. As a minister at Prince of Peace Church in a small village in Zambia, she struggled with her community through the deadly cholera outbreak that struck one year ago. In need of water, which was… Read more »