The Story of Yasmine
Water helps women like Yasmine escape extreme poverty. Yasmine smiles while standing in her small, fenced plot of kale, beets, and onion which is next to her tiny, tin-roofed house… […]
Welcome to Bouassa
Bouassa is a small village on the outskirts of Ouagadougou, accessible only by dirt roads. It is in this village, outside the capital of Burkina Faso that Seraphin Guigma is responsible of a small evangelical community, which used to be his father’s, the old Gustave, who now devotes his life to prayer. Bouassa is a very poor village without electricity or running water and many families have to fetch water daily from wells located several miles from their homes, these existing village wells do not satisfy the needs of the local population. […]
SOME STAGGERING WATER FACTS:
SOME STAGGERING WATER FACTS : More than 3.4 million people die each year from water, sanitation, and hygiene-related causes. 2.5 billion people lack access to improved sanitation. Lack of access to clean water and sanitation kills children at a rate equivalent of a jumbo jet crashing every four hours. Women and children bear [...]