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Access to clean water, safe toilets and handwashing with soap can transform the lives of children and adolescent girls. It reduces diarrhoea, malnutrition, and premature death.

Women and girls often have to walk long distances to reach water wells. Access to community water pumps not only reduces the burden but also keeps them safe from violence.

Girls are also more likely to go to school and finish their education if they have access to clean water and school toilets and menstruation facilities.

Every 60 secondsone child dies because they don’t have access to clean drinking water

Just 68%of the world’s population has access to a toilet

860,000 childrendie every year from water and sanitation related diseases

Our water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) work includes:

helping communities, especially children and adolescent girls, access safe water particularly in rural areas
establishing community-based organisations to make sure that water points and sanitation facilities are well maintained and managed
ensuring children have access to toilets, safe drinking water and hand-washing facilities in schools
setting up school WASH clubs for kids, which include activities that teach them about the importance of safe sanitation and hygiene
encouraging communities to improve hygiene through activities like radio messages, drama and campaigns
delivering safe water and sanitation facilities in emergency situations
stopping practices that cause disease, like defecating in the open, while promoting hand washing and waste management
empowering people to take control of their access to sanitation and hygiene.

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Walk with Me

Take a journey with Ludivina in Timor-Leste, and find out just what it means for a nine-year-old girl to have direct and easy access to clean water.

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Helping Children Access Clean Water and Sanitation

1,051 toiletsin Vietnam were built so thousands of children have somewhere safe and hygienic to go to the toilet

372,000 peoplein Cambodia have handwashing facilities

222 teachersin Malawi were trained to promote using safe toilets and washing hands. As a result, children are learning how to stay safe from cholera

Two young girls in school uniforms wash their hands in basins with taps

SOUTH ASIA WASH RESULTS PROGRAMME

Find out how our four-year programme enabled 6.6. million people to access improved water facilities, sanitation and hygiene, and discover more about the second phase of work in Bangladesh.

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Clean water and sanitation