Women in Africa travel an average of 6 kilometers for water. The fate of Kumba, who had to travel every day to bring water to her house, changed with the fountain in front of her house. Kumba is now very happy. She has much more time to spend with her children and family.
As Salih Tatlıcı Foundation, we built a water fountain in Mkwajuni Village of Tanzania in Africa in cooperation with IDEA Universal Association, which carries out innovative and scientific projects to sustainably solve the water, food, energy, and education problems of the world.
Thus, 249 people living in 63 households in Tanzania now have permanent access to clean water. Life in Mkwajuni Village has become easier, equal, and fair.
IDEA Universal Association presented a certificate of appreciation to our Foundation for the donation.
800 Million People in the World Do Not Have Access to Clean Water
Water is vital for every living being. But 800 million people in penurious regions around the world do not have access to clean water. This is a population 10 times the size of Turkey. The vast majority of these people live in rural areas in Asia and Africa and often have to walk for hours for water from streams and lakes that are not even clean.
The journey to carry water, often made by women and children, barefoot, involves dozens of dangers. Attacks by wild animals, the risk of pregnant women losing their babies, and rape are just a few of them. Children cannot build a future for themselves because they have to spend their school time on the water journey. Epidemics afflict these already poor people. Families cannot farm due to a lack of water and cannot produce enough food for themselves. They cannot recover from the cycle of hunger and poverty.
Polluted water takes more lives than all the wars and violence in the world. 43% of these casualties are children under the age of 5. But when we do a water project in a village like this, everything begins to transform. People who access clean water for 12 hours a day from the fountains in front of their houses and schools recover their health, start agriculture, and girls do not have to interrupt their education on special days.
Briefly, water transforms everything.
IDEA Universal (International Development and Environment Association)
IDEA Universal (International Development and Environment Association) was founded in 2016 by volunteers who dream of a better, fair, egalitarian, and peaceful earth under the leadership of Hayri Dağlı. The IDEA Universal Association, which considers the people living in forgotten geographies struggling with hunger and poverty and the best interests of the environment; has adopted the principles of transparency, participation, accountability, impartiality, and independence as a priority.
It carries out innovative and scientific projects to sustainably solve the world’s water, food, energy, and education problems. It realizes these projects in a need-oriented, permanent, and sustainable manner by acting together with local people. IDEA Universal Association works in cooperation with many international and national non-governmental organizations, including local governments, in its projects and activities. As of 2021, it has provided sustainable clean water, food, energy, education, and income to 200,000 people in Tanzania, Madagascar, Nepal, Senegal, Gambia, and Turkey.
