Temple Oraeki, country director, Hope Spring Water Nigeria
Herefordshire, England based charity Hope Spring, works in poverty alleviation in Africa. Hope Spring’s particular focus is digging wells, constructing boreholes and providing resources and information to developing communities that lack access to safe, clean drinking water.
Hope Spring, along with more than 350 other charities and NGOs make up an alliance called End Water Poverty (EWP). In the last few years, the End Water Poverty alliance have designated the month of March, as Water Action Month (WAM). During Water Action Month, members of End Water Poverty organise events and activities to raise awareness of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) related issues.
Titled Youth Week! Hope Spring Water’s contribution to Water Action Month 2017, is focused on raising awareness of WASH among young people. Most of the planned events will take place in Nigeria, Hope Spring’s most active theatre of operation. Asked why WAM 2017 is focused on the youth, Hope Spring country director for Nigeria, Mr Temple Oraeki said, “WASH awareness among Nigerian youths is poor and schools offer one of the best opportunity to promote awareness and lay a strong WASH foundation”.
More than 63 million Nigerian lack access to clean, drinking water. With many of the affected people having to walk several miles daily, to access water. The burden of feting water for the family falls mainly on children and women. Mr Oraeki hopes the awareness created by WAM 2017, will help informed the youth and create interest in finding solution to problems created by lack of clean water and poor hygiene. You can find full details of Hope Spring Water events for WAM 2017 here.
Some interesting facts about Water Action Month 2017
WAM is organised by End Water Poverty (EWP), is a global coalition of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) charities and NGOs large and small. The group consist of more than 350 members, from over 50 countries.
It is estimated that 663 million people worldwide do not have access to clean, safe water. More than 2.3 billion people do not have access to adequate sanitation facilities. Women from countries that lack access to readily available clean water 200 million hours a day collecting water. More than 500,000 children die every year from diarrhoea, caused by unsafe or dirty water and poor sanitation.
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