Water and sanitation is crucial importance for health and life mainly for children and vulnerable people those have less immune, lack of clean water causes diseases.
According to the latest estimates of the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation (JMP), released in early 2013, 36% per cent of the world’s population – 2.5 billion people – lack improved sanitation facilities, and 768 million people still use unsafe drinking water sources. Inadequate access to safe water and sanitation services, coupled with poor hygiene practices, kills and sickens thousands of children every day, and leads to impoverishment and diminished opportunities for thousands more.
Poor sanitation, water and hygiene have many other serious repercussions. Children – and particularly girls – are denied their right to education because their schools lack private and decent sanitation facilities. Women are forced to spend large parts of their day fetching water. Poor farmers and wage earners are less productive due to illness, health systems are overwhelmed and national economies suffer. Without WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene), sustainable development is impossible.
At this point, Rayaan Foundation finalised digging 270 of shallow and bore wells, which reduced a very small percentage to the needs on the ground because of lacking enough water-wells in the country, also the Foundation has done sanitation activities in order to reduce the poor hygiene in the community.
