Together we can turn on the taps

 

Nicaragua is the second poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and a third of the population still had no access to sustainable sources of drinking water in 2007*.  Raleigh has worked in partnership with the Co-operative Juan Fransisco Paz Silva for eight years in the district of Achuapa, Nicaragua to deliver small scale water projects that benefit local communities and families.

 

In Achuapa, many of the people take their water from streams which often dry up during the dry season and into which flow all the pesticides that they place on their fields.  In the area, there is an unusually high rate of cancers associated with pesticide usage.

 

Over the next two years, Raleigh, in partnership with local communities, aims to build five water projects which will directly benefit 90 families and more than 600 people.

 

To do this, we need your help.  One gravity water feed system costs £7,890.  Think about it.  Less than £40,000 to provide an entire region with clean and safe water for the next twenty years.  It's not much, is it?

 

Access to clean and safe water alleviates illness and death, including reducing under five mortality rates, increasing life expectancy and generally improving the quality of life.  Less illness means more time spent at school and work.

 

These projects will not only provide water for hundreds of people in the Achuapa region, it wil also give them the chance to build a better future for themeselves and their families.

 

Please give whatever you can by donating on this page or by calling 020 7183 1270.

 

Thank you very much for your support.

 

 

Julian Olivier

Country Director

Costa Rica & Nicaragua

 

*Source - UNICEF