The Benefits of Clean Water . Clean water is such a simple solution to so many problems that plague people in developing countries, and yet there are millions of people around the world who do not have access to this precious resource. Read about how Foster Parents Plan is helping to bring clean water to communities around the world. Learn about how children and families in the Agam region of Benin, West Africa, celebrate International Water Day and how Canadian children are making that celebration even more meaningful through the fund-raising efforts of the Great Water Race . Prevention is the Key .
Diarrhea kills an estimated two million children a year across the world.
Yet it is estimated that at least 90 per cent of those deaths could be prevented if families had access to clean water. Residents of the Kangaba region of Mali are working together with Foster Parents Plan to bring clean water to their communities and save the lives of their children. In recent months, violence in the West African country of Guinea has caused Foster Parents Plan to suspend sponsorship communications, suspend program activities and relocate its offices. Learn more about how human compassion is existing even in the midst of war in this personal account from Guinean Country Director James Foster. Tax receipts for 2000 for all Foster Parents and contributors have been mailed.