Water for Mozambique
Mozambique is not immune to the world’s water crisis. In fact, the need for clean water is just as prominent as it is in other countries. In seeking to care for as many people as we can in a life-giving, holistic way, Life for Mozambique is committed to bringing clean water to needy and thirsty people.
Since we have a presence in over 550 communities, we have the connections. Our goal is to bring a clean water well to every Life for Mozambique community. A water well will mean kids will have more time in school. It means women aren’t spending hours walking to bring back water to their homes.
Instead, they will have more time to improve their homes and improve their futures through farming or earning an income. Clean water provides better health and extends life. Clean water is basic, it’s foundational. It’s something we envision flowing next to each and every one of our churches.
Our water well projects
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Now we just need the resources.
We need your help.
- 700 million people worldwide live without clean water.
- 1.5 million children die every year from disease-filled water.
- Kids miss school because of the daily struggle to bring water back to the home.
- Half of the world’s hospital beds are filled with people with water-related illnesses.
- Women and girls spend an estimated 200 million hours (walking 200 million miles) collecting water. On average this is 3 hours, 5-6 miles twice a day.
- Children under-five are on average more than 20 times more likely to die from illnesses linked to unsafe water and bad sanitation than from conflict.
- 443 million school days are lost each year due to water related illness.
- The water and sanitation crisis claims more lives through disease than any war claims through guns.
- Mozambique ranks as the 6th worst country for access to clean water.
- In Mozambique, 55 children die every die due to water-related diseases.
- 53% of Mozambicans don’t have access to clean water (approximately 14 million people).
- In Mozambique people spend on average 3 hours a day collecting water.
- Chronic consumption of unsafe drinking water can lead to permanent cognitive damage and leave people physically stunted for the rest of their lives.
