East Africa
In many villages and cities in East Africa, people don’t have access to the basics of sustainable development: clean drinking water and a clean place to go to the bathroom. In fact, in East Africa, most people don’t have these things.
About one in 10 school-age African girls drop out of school once they reach puberty because they don’t have clean or private washrooms to use at school.
In East Africa,
girls walk very long distances to collect water.
In rural communities without a clean water source, girls have to walk very long distances each morning to collect water for their families. Sustainable development projects like clean water wells improve health and make life easier for girls.