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"Before I started working with Uganda Women's Water Initiative (UWWI), I worked as a nurse in Gomba. Everyday, more than 20 children would be brought in suffering from diarrhea, dysentery or typhoid. During that time, it must have been between 2005 and 2012, over 50 children would die each month because of these diseases. This was a very abnormal prevalence of these diseases and it was heart wrenching as these deaths were completely unnecessary. The cause was and still is waterborne diseases which can be prevented by drinking clean and safe water and proper hygiene and sanitation. I have a son and I'm expecting another child and my hope is they grow as healthy children. That is the same hope I have for the children in Gomba. That is why UWWI worked with women, the mothers of these children, training them to make filters so their children have access to safe drinking water."

-- Comfort Harja, Country Director, Uganda Women's Water Initiative.


Photos by Joel Lukhovi | Survival Media Agency

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Biosand Filters and Brick tanks
"Before I started working with Uganda Women's Water Initiative (UWWI), I worked as a nurse in Gomba. Everyday, more than 20 children would be brought in suffering from diarrhea, dysentery or typhoid. During that time, it must have been between 2005 and 2012, over 50 children would die each month because of these diseases. This was a very abnormal prevalence of these diseases and it was heart wrenching as these deaths were completely unnecessary. The cause was and still is waterborne diseases which can be prevented by drinking clean and safe water and proper hygiene and sanitation. I have a son and I'm expecting another child and my hope is they grow as healthy children. That is the same hope I have for the children in Gomba. That is why UWWI worked with women, the mothers of these children, training them to make filters so their children have access to safe drinking water." <br /> <br /> -- Comfort Harja, Country Director, Uganda Women's Water Initiative.<br /> <br /> <br /> Photos by Joel Lukhovi | Survival Media Agency