Frehiwot’s diary

WaterAid/ Behailu Shiferaw

Play the video

Can you answer these questions about the film you have just watched?

How long is her journey to

collect water?

What is the weather like?

What does she wish for?

Do you think she is happy or sad?

How does she carry the water back

home?

Unsafe water

WaterAid/ Behallu Shiferaw

Every day 1,400 children around the world die as a result of diseases caused by dirty water and a lack of toilets.

Unsafe water

WaterAid/ Behallu Shiferaw

One in ten people worldwide do not have access to safe drinking water.

What is WaterAid?

WaterAid/Gullhem Alandry

WaterAid works with the world’s poorest people, helping them to access to safe water and toilets.

WaterAid works in 26 countries across the world and (so far) has managed to help more than 21 million people.

WaterAid/Asim Hafeez

WaterAid uses money raised to help provide taps, wells and water pumps near to people’s homes.

What is WaterAid?

WaterAid/ Behallu Shiferaw

What is WaterAid?

This changes people’s lives completely. Children no longer have to walk for hours to collect water so they can go to school.

WaterAid/Anna Karl

What is WaterAid?

There is less illness as the water they are drinking is clean and safe.

What is WaterAid?

WaterAid also helps by providing toilets and teaching people how to wash their hands properly to stop illness and disease from spreading.

WaterAid/Layton Thompson