—Blog from Generosity Water founder, Philip Wagner

1 billion people without clean water

• Source: · UNICEF/WHO. 2008. on Drinking Water and Sanitation
• New estimate is 884 million people based on UNICEF report that is rounded up to 1 billion.

1 billion people will go to bed hungry tonight

• New number is under 1 billion according to United Nations Food Agency.
• See article: http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2010/s3012357.htm

132 Million AIDS orphans

According to UNICEF there are132 Million AIDS orphans in the world.

An ‘orphan’ is defined by a child to whom one or both parents have died because of HIV/AIDS. 

In Uganda alone there are 2 million orphans

Of the 2 million known orphans in Uganda in 2003, an estimated 940,000 were orphaned due to AIDS (48%) – Unicef.com

Every 15 seconds a child dies of a water related illness

WHO says every 15 seconds a child dies from diarrhea. UNICEF says every 20 seconds a child dies form a water related disease.

3.6 million people die annually from the lack of water.

3.575 million people die each year from water-related disease

Source: World Health Organization. 2008. Safer Water, Better Health: Costs, benefits, and sustainability of interventions to protect and promote health.

That means that approximately 9,800 deaths that occur every day.

Consider the following passage in Matthew where Jesus tells a story to his disciples about what it will be like when they face judgment:

⁴⁴“They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’

 ⁴⁵“He will reply, ‘I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’

(Matthew 25.44-45 NIV)

If you want to join me in helping give clean water to ‘the least of these’ visit my page https://mygenerositywater.org/philipandholly

Philip