Do you take running water for granted?
* Diarrhea remains in the second leading cause of death among children under five globally. Nearly one in five child deaths – about 1.5 million each year – is due to diarrhea. It kills more young children than AIDS, malaria and measles combined. (13)
* Every 20 seconds, a child dies from a water-related disease. (2)
* Diarrhea is more prevalent in the developing world due, in large part, to the lack of safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene, as well as poorer overall health and nutritional status. (13)
* Children in poor environments often carry 1,000 parasitic worms in their bodies at any time. (8)
* In the developing world, 24,000 children under the age of five die every day from preventable causes like diarrhea contracted from unclean water.
* In just one day, more than 200 million hours of women’s time is consumed for the most basic of human needs — collecting water for domestic use. This lost productivity is greater than the combined number of hours worked in a week by employees at Walmart, United Parcel Service, McDonald’s, IBM, Target, and Kroger, according to Gary White, co-founder of Water.org.
NO ONE should die from a preventable disease. Ever. Anywhere. Not if we can help. You CAN help.
February 1 - 13, 2011
Join Mike Mann, Global Consultant for American Baptist International Ministries from February 1 - 13, 2011 to help construct a water system in a Thai village that does not have clean, running water or sanitation facilities. You can make a difference in the lives of children who are drinking contaminated water, women who spend most of their time in the day hauling water in huge cans, and families, whose livestock and agricultural output will improve as the families are educated and trained through the ministries of Integrated Tribal Development Program (ITDP),
The details -
$2000 plus round trip airfare from USA
Waylon Woods, Team Leader
Mike and Becky Mann, Missionaries
Information about the trip: http://www.internationalministries.org/read/23949
To register, contact bimvolunteers@abc-usa.org
SOURCES:
(2) Number estimated from statistics in the 2006 United Nations Human Development Report.
(8) UN Water. 2008. Tackling a Global Crisis: International Year of Sanitation 2008
(13) Diarrhea: Why children are still dying and what can be done. UNICEF, WHO 2009