The Kids Alive Bethany School is reaching destitute and illiterate children, equipping them with the knowledge and skills to ensure they have a brighter future. Education is an essential tool in the fight against poverty and deprivation worldwide but in a country like Ethiopia, where an estimated seven million children have no access to education, it is of paramount importance. Today the school is providing quality education for 270 children in a purpose built-school where kids are growing in knowledge and confidence.
While much has improved for the children at the Bethany school, access to clean water remains a big obstacle to their health. Many of the children are suffering unnecessarily from illnesses such as diarrhoea, dysentery and malaria.
Water-related diseases are the single biggest killer of infants in Ethiopia and many children die before the age of five. Water scarcity severely affects women and girls as they are traditionally responsible for collecting water; it is for this reason that many girls in the rural community are not able to attend school. Instead, they walk for hours each day to collect water, which is almost certainly contaminated, and this leads to sickness, and often death.
To care for the health of our students and the community, Kids Alive hopes to install pipes and water filters, and long term, to dig a well in the area. This is a community project and the parents of our kids are helping to carry out this work. To bring in clean water to the school, Kids Alive needs to raise £1,000.
Please dig deep ........... as we are falling a long way!
Katie & Ahmad
