[vc_section full_width=”stretch_row”][vc_row][vc_column offset=”vc_col-lg-offset-3 vc_col-lg-6 vc_col-md-offset-3 vc_col-md-6″ css=”.vc_custom_1560246080102{padding-bottom: 100px !important;}”][vc_icon icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-tint” color=”black” align=”center” css=”.vc_custom_1538826232295{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”][vc_custom_heading text=”We exist because” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:center” google_fonts=”font_family:Raleway%3A100%2C200%2C300%2Cregular%2C500%2C600%2C700%2C800%2C900|font_style:800%20bold%20regular%3A800%3Anormal” css=”.vc_custom_1539110000118{margin-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_custom_heading text=”17% of child deaths are caused by diarrhea related diseases resulting from poor health and sanitation” font_container=”tag:div|text_align:center|color:%23474747″ google_fonts=”font_family:Raleway%3A100%2C200%2C300%2Cregular%2C500%2C600%2C700%2C800%2C900|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal” css=”.vc_custom_1560240515107{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row gap=”30″ equal_height=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1560240354872{margin-top: 45px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1499047153229{margin-bottom: 30px !important;padding-top: 30px !important;padding-right: 45px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;padding-left: 45px !important;background-color: #fafafa !important;border-radius: 4px !important;}”][vc_single_image image=”985″ alignment=”center” css=”.vc_custom_1537627391493{margin-bottom: 10px !important;}”][vc_custom_heading text=”1,344 hours spent per year” font_container=”tag:div|font_size:18px|text_align:center|line_height:22px” google_fonts=”font_family:Raleway%3A100%2C200%2C300%2Cregular%2C500%2C600%2C700%2C800%2C900|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal”][vc_custom_heading text=”Every year children and mothers spend 1,344 hours fetching water” font_container=”tag:p|text_align:center|color:%23757575″ google_fonts=”font_family:Raleway%3A100%2C200%2C300%2Cregular%2C500%2C600%2C700%2C800%2C900|font_style:300%20light%20regular%3A300%3Anormal” css=”.vc_custom_1537627300666{margin-top: 15px !important;}”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1498791990905{margin-bottom: 30px !important;padding-top: 30px !important;padding-right: 45px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;padding-left: 45px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;border-radius: 4px !important;}”][vc_single_image image=”986″ alignment=”center” css=”.vc_custom_1537627382549{margin-bottom: 10px !important;}”][vc_custom_heading text=”Unsafe Water & Poor sanitation” font_container=”tag:div|font_size:18px|text_align:center|line_height:22px” google_fonts=”font_family:Raleway%3A100%2C200%2C300%2Cregular%2C500%2C600%2C700%2C800%2C900|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal”][vc_custom_heading text=”500,000 Children die every year from diarrhea caused by consumption of unsafe water and sanitation” font_container=”tag:p|text_align:center|color:%23757575″ google_fonts=”font_family:Raleway%3A100%2C200%2C300%2Cregular%2C500%2C600%2C700%2C800%2C900|font_style:300%20light%20regular%3A300%3Anormal” css=”.vc_custom_1537609007543{margin-top: 15px !important;}”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1499047199703{margin-bottom: 30px !important;padding-top: 30px !important;padding-right: 45px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;padding-left: 45px !important;background-color: #fafafa !important;border-radius: 4px !important;}”][vc_single_image image=”1006″ alignment=”center” css=”.vc_custom_1537629770085{margin-bottom: 10px !important;}”][vc_custom_heading text=”Unhygienic Areas of Convenience” font_container=”tag:div|font_size:18px|text_align:center|line_height:22px” google_fonts=”font_family:Raleway%3A100%2C200%2C300%2Cregular%2C500%2C600%2C700%2C800%2C900|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal”][vc_custom_heading text=”Only 3 in 10 rural households in Uganda have a latrine and 1 in 10 people practice open defecation” font_container=”tag:p|text_align:center|color:%23757575″ google_fonts=”font_family:Raleway%3A100%2C200%2C300%2Cregular%2C500%2C600%2C700%2C800%2C900|font_style:300%20light%20regular%3A300%3Anormal” css=”.vc_custom_1539418316001{margin-top: 15px !important;}”][/vc_column][/vc_row][/vc_section][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” css=”.vc_custom_1591603189296{background-image: url(https://africawatersolutions.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/6.jpg?id=1753) !important;}”][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_empty_space][vc_empty_space height=”50px”][vc_empty_space height=”50px”][vc_empty_space height=”50px”][vc_empty_space height=”50px”][vc_empty_space height=”50px”][vc_empty_space height=”50px”][vc_custom_heading text=”Globally, water is life’s most basic need; and yet billions of people spend long hours searching for it. While it is easy to assume that water is in plenty, clean and safe water is incredibly scarce and expensive to distribute everywhere in the world especially in developing countries. Inevitably, the water crisis greatly affects everything; Education, Health, Poverty and worst of all, women and children.” font_container=”tag:h4|font_size:25|text_align:center|color:%23ffffff|line_height:1.3″ google_fonts=”font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:500%20bold%20regular%3A500%3Anormal”][vc_empty_space height=”50px”][vc_empty_space height=”50px”][vc_empty_space height=”50px”][vc_empty_space height=”50px”][vc_empty_space height=”50px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]
Less than 2% of the people in rural areas of Uganda have access to clean water, this means that 98% of the people consume water directly from streams, wells and any other water bodies; this leaves them exposed to water-bone diseases such as typhoid, diarrhoea, dysentery among others.
Mothers and children move for over four hours to collect a 20 litre jerrycan and as such children miss school and eventually drop out of school-on the other hand, mothers can not do any other house work after carrying a 20 litre jerrycan for close to 4 hours on their heads.
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