 It’s easy to overlook, a seemingly mundane thing in developed countries, but proper sanitation and access to clean water is one of the most critical issues in the world. At least 2.6 billion people - 41 percent of the global population - do not have access to any sort of basic sanitation system. As a result, millions suffer from dehydration and life-threatening, preventable diseases that claim the lives of thousands each day.
Project Concern International (PCI) understands that increasing access to cost-effective and sustainable water and sanitation services is essential to helping children and communities prevent disease. The impact of clean water and proper sanitation is profound; not only does it bring about better health, but it also has positive economic, environmental, and social impacts. By working together with our beneficiaries, PCI provides access to sufficiently clean drinking water for cooking, bathing, washing, and irrigation - water that is desperately needed by communities in remote and impoverished regions across the globe.
PCI understands that lasting change begins with people. Through an innovative approach called Community-Led Total Sanitation, PCI’s field facilitators teach, inspire, and train communities to find solutions to their own sanitation issues. Through this empowering program, communities pull together to build, use, and maintain latrines with no outside funding. Programs like these guarantee that communities will continue to find solutions to their water and sanitation issues long after PCI leaves.
How Project Concern International is making a difference...
- In 2007, PCI/Nicaragua addressed the water and sanitation needs of nearly 4,000 people in the Jinotega department municipalities of La Concordia, San Sebastián de Yalí, and Santa María de Pantasma by building five gravity-run mini-aqueducts, five wells and 200 latrines.
- Last year, PCI/Indonesia conducted water and sanitation assessments in schools and residences in 20 villages and developed improvement plans to be implemented in 2008. These water and sanitation improvements are benefiting at least 14,804 people from 3,451 households in remote Indonesian villages.
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Click the play button twice to watch a video about PCI's Food Security Project in Nicaragua, which is helping rural villages obtain access to clean drinking water and improved sanitation services. |
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