The World Water Crisis
The Situation
- Every day 4,100 children die of water-related diseases. Nearly 900 million people worldwide lack access to safe drinking water.
- Just $1 raised through the UNICEF Tap Project can provide a child with safe water for 40 days.
- The simple act of washing a child’s face with clean water can prevent debilitating diseases—like blinding trachoma, an infectious eye disease that spreads from child to child. The world’s leading cause of preventable blindness, blinding trachoma is endemic in 57 countries, with 1.2 billion people living in trachoma-endemic areas, primarily in the poorest communities in the developing world—meaning millions of children without access to clean water are at risk of becoming blind from trachoma.
How UNICEF Helps
- UNICEF works to improve access to safe water and sanitation facilities in schools and communities, while promoting safe hygiene practices in more than 100 countries around the world.
- Since 1990, UNICEF has helped 1.6 billion people gain access to clean water and sanitation.
- Donations raised through the UNICEF Tap Project campaign have funded a variety of lifesaving projects—including water access improvements in densely populated villages in Vietnam; sanitation improvement in Central African Republic; emergency response and water, environment and sanitation capacity-building in Cameroon; and school sanitation and clean water projects in the Toledo region of Belize.
- 2012 UNICEF Tap Project Funds will specifically target Togo, Vietnam, Mauritania and Cameroon.
Learn more about the water and sanitation situation facing children around the world.
UNICEF Tap Project
When you take water, give water...
That's the sentiment behind the 2012 UNICEF Tap project. Since its inception in 2007, the UNICEF Tap Project has raised over $3 million in the U.S. and has helped provide clean water for millions of children globally.
The first program of its kind, the UNICEF Tap Project has become a dynamic movement that affords everyone the opportunity to help provide the world's children with safe, clean water.
Whether you want to raise funds, volunteer, hold a fun Tappy Hour event or just donate the water you usually drink for free, the UNICEF Tap Project invites you to make a difference and help give a child clean water to live. 2012 UNICEF Tap Project funds will support water and sanitation programs in Togo, Cameroon, Mauritania and Vietnam.
