February, 2009 —The Prem Rawat Foundation (TPRF) has made a grant of $25,000 to help the internationally known WaterAid charity continue its projects throughout Asia and Africa to provide people access to safe water and proper sanitation.
The findings are staggering: As many as one in eight people in the world (884 million) do not have access to safe water; as many as 2.5 billion people (40% of the world’s population) do not have access to sanitation; and about 1.8 million children die every year as a result of diseases caused by unclean water and poor sanitation.
A major focus of The Prem Rawat Foundation is helping ensure that people have sustainable access to clean water as a first step in moving out of the cycle of poverty and disease.
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The Foundation has provided clean water to 2,500 schoolchildren in rural Thailand; 15,000 in Pakistan; and both food and water to hundreds of children who had been rescued from a life in the garbage dumps in Cambodia.
In Africa, TPRF has helped provide water wells and sanitation facilities in 23 villages in Ghana, including training local people to manage the facilities and keep them in good repair; and has provided clean water systems for 11,000 in Mozambique and 40,000 in Niger, where one in five children die before the age of five, many due to diseases carried in their water.
This latest grant from TPRF continues the Foundation’s efforts to help the world’s poorest people gain access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene education.
Photo credit: WaterAid/Marco Betti
About WaterAid
WaterAid is an international charity based in the United Kingdom, whose mission is to overcome poverty by enabling the world's poorest people to gain access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene education. Founded in 1981, with a vision of a world where everyone has access to safe water and sanitation, WaterAid is currently working in 11 African countries and four Asian countries. http://www.wateraid.org/uk/
About The Prem Rawat Foundation
The Prem Rawat Foundation was created in 2001 by Prem Rawat, known also as Maharaji, and has a dual mission of bringing his message of peace to people around the world and providing essential humanitarian aid to those in need. TPRF partners with other humanitarian organizations to bring food, water and rapid disaster relief where it is most needed.
