Our Belief
The term “Water is life” is one we strongly believe in and the goal of our program is to provide the key necessities of life. Our program also offers the essential foundations for people, and their communities to develop and grow through safe, clean and sustainable water.
We partner with communities to develop sustainable solutions using effective technology that is easily maintained. The goal of our charity is to ensure work is done right by overseeing every process step-by-step. With the primary step of drilling wells to following up with maintenance and management.
Drought and Displacement
Currently many children in Somaliland drink water that is also shared with livestock.
Women and children usually walk miles to look for a water source that ends up being contaminated as a result the vulnerable usually children and the elderly end up with waterborne diseases such as cholera.
The economy in Somalia and Somaliland are largely pastoral and agro-pastoral. Due to increasing frequency and severity of drought
as a result of climate change induced desertification of equatorial regions; nomadic communities are forced to return
to urban regions in the absence of precipitation and overground water sources. This displacement of people burdens
urban regions due to a lack of capacity for the rapid influx of individuals seeking a source of water.
Impacts of Drought on Health
In sub-Saharan Africa, a baby’s chance of dying from diarrhea is almost 520 times that of a baby in the United States A pregnant woman, access to safe clean water is
extremely important to protect them from serious diseases such as hepatitis, which has no cure and infects more than 50 % of infants born to infected mothers.
(Source: Water for life: Making it Happen 2005, WHO and United Nation children’s Fund; Hepatitis B, National Foundation for Infection Diseases)
