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Joshua Orphan Care Trust provides education and feeding centres for orphans in the rural communities near Blantyre. A clean source of water, for each of these communities, is an essential factor in providing that care.
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Situation
Each of Joshua's 19 communities suffer from the debilitating effects of significant poverty coupled with rising HIV/AIDS rates, poor road networks and very few health and education facilities. The key, day-to-day problem is the lack of clean, piped water, especially in the dry season. Without this, orphaned children walk for miles to fetch water from other sources - which means they cannot be in school, sacrificing their education-the main long term path out of poverty.
Solution
Drilling boreholes are the current best way to provide clean water to these remote villages. The benefits are simple and direct: by reducing the journey time for families to fetch water from other sources, children can more easily focus on their school work, health of the children benefits by having a safe and clean source of water.