Water For People

Today there are still 884 million people around the world without access to safe drinking water and 2.6 billion who do not have adequate sanitation facilities. Daily about 6,000 people die from water-related illnesses, most of them children.

Since 1990s Water For People has helped communities in developing countries to improve their quality of life by supporting locally sustainable drinking water resources, hygiene education programs, and sanitation facilities. Water for People works in eleven countries around the world: Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda, and India. By carefully researching and surveying areas the program thrives to cover entire regions with solutions that will last. Most of the effort is done in rural areas where a lot of work is done in single households, in communities, and schools.

Water For People aims to build a world where “all people have access to safe drinking water and sanitation, and where no one suffers from water-or sanitation-related disease”. Since 1990s the number of beneficiaries has increased yearly. In 2009 the organization helped over 325,000 beneficiaries.


Water For People utilizes new mobile technology Field Operations Watch (FLOW)  to map and monitor their work. According to Water For People "FLOW will dramatically improve, simplify and hasten post-project monitoring and reporting". To read more about FLOW and see it in action visit http://www.waterforpeople.org/programs/field-level-operations-watch.html.

Website: http://www.waterforpeople.com/

Charity Code: 4105