Building Community Bridges Inc., (BCB) has 7 days to raise a grand total of $5,000 to support their operations that bring clean water to rural villages in Togo and West Africa. According to the CIA World Factbook, bacterial diarrhea is a very high risk of death to citizens of Togo. Lack of clean drinking water, hygiene [...]

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Uzbekistan and the Kyrgyz Republic in Central Asia face public health risks and high rates of mortality from water-borne diseases. In Uzbekistan, only 50 to 60 percent of the population living in rural areas has access to treated water delivered through a centralized, piped water system. Lack of infrastructural development and a water quality monitoring system [...]

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Why do children have to choose between attending school and spending the day walking to a creek where the water is unsafe? Is it acceptable that children trudge three miles a day to reach water that they know makes them sick, potentially sick enough to die? If children are the future, then solid investments in education [...]

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Rehabilitating broken water wells is an investment in global health, education, poverty reduction, and the safety of women and girls in developing nations.  Water well rehabilitation secures the initial monetary and social investment made when water wells in a developing country were installed. Sometimes, saving water wells could mean saving a life. In Cote D’Ivoire and [...]

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