Global Health & Education Foundation
Uniting the World to Help Those in Need
Current Situation
According to the United Nations, over 1.1 billion of our fellow global citizens have inadequate access to clean water and 2.6 billion are without appropriate sanitation. This problem is exacerbated when the world’s poorest people often pay the highest prices for water of the poorest quality. During the twentieth century, the world's population tripled, while water use multiplied six times. As a result, approximately 1.8 million people die every year from diarrheal disease, and astonishingly, 90 percent of those deaths occur in children under the age of five.
Much has been done and much is being done, but it is not enough as the situation grows more acute every day.Governments alone cannot address the world's growing crises surrounding poverty, water and sanitation. New, innovative, sustainable approaches are needed to combat this escalating world crisis. We must develop a targeted,
comprehensive approach to providing safe water to today's children, ensuring that they will not only have a chance to survive, but also to grow into leaders who understand and appreciate the value of sustainable health, economic development, and human dignity. To be successful, we must focus on improving access to safe water and
basic sanitation, disease prevention and health promotion, and literacy and basic education. Only by achieving these objectives will we begin to realize sustainable economic development among the world’s poorest communities – the Base of the Pyramid.
Our wide-ranging approach as a social enterprise is to help others achieve economic advancement by providing
comprehensive and sustainable water, health, and education solutions to the world, one child, one family, one village
at a time.
12 September 2007Headline
Safe Drinking Water is Essential
Current Situation