- Water, sanitation and hygiene has the potential to prevent at least 9.1% of the global disease burden and 6.3% of all deaths.
- An estimated 2.5 billion people lack access to improved sanitation(more than 35% of the world's population)
- An estimated 801,000 children younger than 5 years of age perish from diarrhea each year, mostly in developing countries. This amounts to 11% of the 7.6 million deaths of children under the age of five and means that about 2,200 children are dying every day as a result of diarrheal disease.
- Unsafe drinking water, inadequate availability of water for hygiene, and lack of access to sanitation together contribute to about 88% of deaths from diarrheal diseases.
- Improved water sources reduce diarrhea morbidity by 21%; improved sanitation reduces diarrhea morbidity by 37.5%; and the simple act of washing hands at critical times can reduce the number of diarrhea cases by as much as 35%. Improvement of drinking-water quality, such as point-of-use disinfection, would lead to a 45% reduction of diarrhea episodes.
- According to the World Health Organization and UNICEF, regions with the lowest coverage of 'improved' sanitation in 2006 were sub-Saharan Africa (31%), Southern Asia (33%), and Eastern Asia (65%).
Read these and other water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) facts from the CDC's website at http://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/global/wash_statistics.html.
One of Tabibu Africa Inc.'s goals is to provide education on these and other sanitation, hygiene and first aid issues to remote areas of Eastern Africa in an effort to reduce disease burden and morbidity. Education points such as appropriate hand hygiene, ways to ensure more sanitary water supply, how to obtain clean water, and basic first aid can help improve quality of life immensely. By providing even just one small village with the means to obtain clean water and education on sanitary and hygiene issues we can save lives! It would only cost approximately $50 US Dollars to make this a reality.
To see how to donate to this or one of the many other goals Tabibu Africa Inc. has visit our website at www.tabibuafrica.org, and help us continue empowering the people of Eastern Africa...one helping hand at a time.
