At the left side of the picture is the open well that provides water for the community of Las Lagunas. The tables in the center of the picture are used for washing clothes.

Like most rural communities in Nicaragua, Las Lagunas has for generations depended on open wells and muddy streams for the water they use to drink, cook, bathe, and wash clothes.

The water from open wells and muddy streams is often lethal. Diseases like typhus, cholera, dysentery and malaria are often carried in the polluted water of these communal streams and contaminated wells. The World Health Organization estimates that a child dies every fifteen seconds due to a water-related disease.

Clean Water For The World installed a drinking water sterilization system at the community schoolhouse. When the new drinking water system was commissioned, the community was also educated about hygiene, sanitation, and how to maintain their drinking water system to insure its effectiveness.

The new drinking water system at Las Lagunas has nearly eliminated water-related diarheal diseases, which had been killing as many as 50% of the community's children under 5 years of age.

You can save many children in communities like Las Lagunas by giving toward Clean Water For The World's safe drinking water program. A gift of $700 will supply as many as 450 families with clean drinking water. Gifts as small as $25 will help supply lifesaving filters and UV tubes for drinking water systems. Will you help?