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Our aim is to improve access to an improved and secure water source for over 60,000 people in 9 of the poorest countries in the world, all of them in Africa. The global crisis in water consigns large segments of humanity to lives of poverty, vulnerability and insecurity. Women and young girls carry a double burden of disadvantage, since it is they who sacrifice their time and their education to collect water.
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By 2010, Self Help Africa will: • Build 120 wells • Build 55 boreholes • Improve access to safe drinking water for 63,000people • Provide a basic sanitation package • Offer participants basic health and hygiene education • Facilitate the formation of Village Water Committees On average, our programme participants are made up of 60% women and 40% men. In the communities where we work women are the most vulnerable as they traditionally have little access to land and bear the burden of looking for water and for feeding their families. In the dry season up to 70% of working time can be spent away from their families looking for water and firewood. This leads to high female illiteracy (up to 80% in some areas) and domestic problems as their husbands accuse them of neglect. The work will be carried out in Zambia, Togo, Malawi, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya and Uganda in villages identified by our local partner organisations working alongside the communities most affected.