In Cabo Delgado, Mozambique, MENTOR is supporting projects that are helping to prevent water-related diseases for people who have been forcibly displaced because of conflict in the region. Since May 2022 we have reached over half a million people through increasing access to safe water and hygiene. 🚰
Improvements to water points at key locations increases the supply of clean water for handwashing. Together with promoting hand washing these activities are helping to reduce the high risk of diseases from unsafe water such as cholera, respiratory infections and typhoid fever.
MENTOR works with communities to build and install simple handwashing stations called Tippy Taps, increasing access to facilities that are affordable and limit the water needed to wash hands effectively.
Through Save the Children International SAIL Consortium, supported by ECHO, we:
💧 installed 6 hand-pump boreholes and repaired 4, in 10 primary schools.
💧 are repairing 14 rainwater harvesting systems and installing 7 additional ones in primary schools.
💧 installed 53 Tippy Taps adapted for students with reduced mobility in schools.
Supported by USAID – Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance, we also:
💧 repaired 11 hand-pumped boreholes in community settings.
💧 are repairing rainwater harvesting systems in 28 health facilities.
💧 installed 16,862 Tippy Taps to serve households.
A lack of water and sanitation substantially increases the risk of diarrhoeal diseases which are often fatal. The World Health Organization estimates that globally more 1 million deaths from diarrhoea were due to unsafe WASH in 2019. Whilst 356,000 deaths from acute respiratory infections due to unsafe hand hygiene practices in the same year.