UNICEF USA

UNICEF and the Baxter International Foundation are improving access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services in homes, schools and health care centers in five water-challenged regions across Egypt: Assiut, Aswan, Luxor, Minya and Qena.  Ahlam Ayat is grateful that she now has a connection to safe, clean water in her house in Assuit, Upper Egypt. It used to be very difficult for her to fetch water for her family. “When there was no water, my children and most of the children of the neighborhood helped their mothers to fetch water in the vicinity. Thankfully, we now have water in our house, and we finally feel safe,” Ayat said. “Now I don’t have to worry about saving water for the household or even if the water we got from outside is contaminated or clean.”  Many families like Ayat’s face a daily challenge: where to get clean, safe drinking water....