Access to safe water and sanitation systems is foundational to healthy communities. Many communities without running water rely on unprotected water sources, which frequently become contaminated and expose communities to waterborne diseases. In addition, reliable access to safe water is a necessity for safe and effective medical care, in order to properly maintain sanitation and reduce the risk of infection in hospitals. H2O4ALL community health initiatives include water access for hospitals and health centers, sanitation and hygiene projects such as latrines and washing facilities, and ensuring at-risk populations such as seniors and young children are protected from the dangers of unsafe water.
For teachers and students, staying safe during the pandemic was difficult enough without water stress – but in communities where safe water access was scarce, protective hygiene was exponentially more difficult. For our partner communities in the Dominican Republic, H2O4ALL’s Clean Hands Initiative made a world of difference when it came to keeping kids and teachers safe at school.
H2O4ALL began working in Tsopoli Village, Ghana, in 2017 when we partnered with the Givers’ Care Foundation to implement a safe water system at Someh Rahma School. At the time, Tsopoli – a small village of around 500 people in Ghana’s Greater Accra region – had no safe water source. Most Tsopoli residents relied on rainwater collection or unprotected lakes for water. Furthermore, these sources were often contaminated.
In 2015, we partnered with Assemblies of God Cuba to serve water-stressed communities in Cuba’s Cienfuegos District. Since then, fourteen churches in the Cienfuegos District have received safe water systems, providing thousands of community members with a much-needed alternative to local water sources.
In 2012, H2O4ALL partnered with Wine to Water to bring safe water to water-stressed areas of the Dominican Republic. With simple point-of-use water filters, we’ve brought safe water to tens of thousands of people in struggling communities – one family at a time.
Four churches in the district received safe water systems, empowering community faith leaders to serve their communities with safe water and giving thousands of people a much-needed alternative to contaminated local water sources.