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Situation
In rural Zambia & Mozambique waterborne diseases are common because half the population do not have safe water to drink & only 10% have a toilet of any type. Preventable diseases like diarrhoea stop families from fulfilling their potential: children are too sick for school, adults have no energy for farming & collecting water leaves women with little time for productive activities. Lack of training & support leaves communities that do have waterpoints unable to maintain these long-term.
Solution
Village Water will support 2700 people with hygiene promotion sessions covering disease prevention, handwashing & how to build latrines & handwashing stations (which the communities build themselves). A new waterpoint is installed in every community & the