"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world" -
Nelson Mandela
(1918- )
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Trachoma can be cured with a one-time dosage of the anitbiotic zithromax made by Pfizer. In 2007, the Carter Center provided cures for all of the children from our three villages.
Trachoma is the leading preventable cause of blindness. The infection causes a thickening of the inside eyelid which curls the eyelashes inward to scar the cornea and result in blindness.
In Walaji Elementary School, more than 90% of the students have trachoma.
In Bacha Elementary and Dangla Riverside Elementary School, over 80% of the students have trachoma.
Ask anyone what it will take to make women’s equality a reality and “toilets” will probably not be the response.
Yet it is difficult to exaggerate the impact that access to private, safe and sanitary toilets would have on the daily lives and long-term prospects of the 1.3 billion women and girls worldwide that are currently doing without. The burdens of water-hauling are widely understood: this tedious, time-consuming and physically debilitating
chore reduces the time available for productive activities and, for girls, to attend school. Less discussed are the blows to health, productivity and dignity that result from poor sanitation.
In some settings where basic sanitation is lacking, women and girls have to rise before dawn, making their way in the darkness to fields to defecate in the open, knowing they may risk rape or other violence in the process.
In such circumstances, women and girls often go the whole day without relieving themselves until night affords them the privacy of darkness. Sometimes, they limit their daytime intake of food and water so that they can make it until evening. For many girls, the onset of adolescence means the end of school. All who lack adequate sanitation facilities are exposed to unpleasant and unhealthy daily routines. However, the impact on women and girls is
greatest. In their household roles, they may more readily transmit disease-causing pathogens from exposed faeces to other family members. And restricted toilet opportunities cause discomfort and increase the likelihood of health problems such as urinary tract infections and chronic constipation as well as causing unnecessary mental stress.
How can the future be better if today's girls must drop out of school for want of something as basic as a toilet?
ADVANCING GENDER EQUALITY WITH TOILETS AND TAPS
Safe water = ability to wash face and hands = significant reduction in trachoma (eye)
Reasonable access to safe water means girls can go to school instead of using time and energy to get water for the family.
Substantial economic gains occur with increased access to water according to a cost-benefit analysis by WHO.
CLEAN WATER IS ESSENTIAL FOR HEALTH
Project Ethiopia's main goal is to ease the difficulties faced by rural Ethiopian families to give their children a better future. A future with an education.
Project Ethiopia does this by providing:
When spiders unite they can tie up a lion
- Ethiopian proverb
Project Ethiopia 1763 NW 62nd Street, Seattle, WA 98107