In Sumba Island, East Nusa Tenggara Province Indonesia, water changes everything. For years children and families in Sumba must bear the reality of living without direct access to clean water. Based on the latest Indonesia National Statistics, almost 50% of Sumba residents or around 300,000 people have no access to water. 

This forces children and mothers to spend 1-4 hours of their day, walking for miles to fetch 5-10 liters of water EVERYDAY. The amount of time and energy children spend daily fetching water is burdensome, leaving them with very little time to study and play. Healthwise, the lack of clean water exposes families to bad hygiene and sanitation which lead them to encounter various water-borne diseases such as diarrhoea, pneumonia and other bacteria-related diseases. In Indonesia, pneumonia and diarrhoea are the first and second highest killers for children under five years old, and East Nusa Tenggara province, including in Sumba, is one of the province with the highest cases of those two diseases.  

Save the Children is leading a breakthrough water infrastructure project in western area of Sumba Island to bring water closer to community. Your overall donation of USD 30,000 can help one village in Sumba Island, Indonesia to build :  

• Village Water Reservoir
• one filtered Water Tank with 50,000 cubic feet water per day (Concrete-based)
•  4,000 meters steel pipe and network pipe installation to village area
•  10 water points reaching directly to 1.000 people including children, and 1 health center.

For every gift that you can give will help to support Charles Monat and Save the Children' shared ambition to provide better health for families and children especially in the most deprived and under-developed area in the world. Gifting clean water will ensure children safe from dangerous and tiring walks, provide them with better livelihood, better chance to study and learn more and reduce their risks to health hazard.

Join us in being ambitious and protecting the lives of those who need it the most.

 

Charles Monat