South Sudan: Provide clean water to prevent disease

Yunes Nyajiath has been a trained village health promoter since 2007. One of her jobs is to visit homes to talk to families about how they can avoid common hygiene-related infections and diseases such as diarrhoea and trachoma. She encourages families to dig their own latrines, use soap, have a closed rubbish pit and use a rack for drying kitchen utensils.

Yunes Nyajiath, Malou village, Maban county, Upper Nile state

South Sudan is the world's newest nation. But it is also one of the poorest. After almost 40 years of civil war, water, sanitation and health services are completely inadequate. Water-related diseases are rife, and one in seven children dies before the age of five. Your donation can help change things. It will enable us to provide safe water and hygiene advice for ten communities, ultimately laying the foundations for a healthier future. And having local wells means that women and children no longer have to walk miles to fetch water, freeing up their time for education, farming and developing livelihoods.

Project aims

• Provide safe, clean water - in year one, we will build 3 new boreholes and repair 13 existing water points.
• Reduce levels of disease by supporting the building of latrines in five communities and promoting improved community hygiene and sanitation. 
• Ensure sustainable supplies of clean water are maintained at the water points by training 16 community teams to manage and repair wells and pumps.

How far does your money go?

• £128 could train-up a village pump technician on how to service and repair water sources.
• Just £29 could provide a one-day workshop to help train-up a health promoter, who would then go on to promote essential hygiene practices within local communities.