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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....

Meet Lennie, a passionate young woman whose journey with Water For People began in 2015, when she was only 11 years old. That was the year Water For People partnered with Lennie’s school, Chilomoni Primary, and built bathrooms, handwashing facilities, and menstrual hygiene management units to support students’ sanitation and hygiene needs. Soon a Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene club emerged to promote sanitation and hygiene among students. Lennie volunteered to be a leader in the club. “Sanitation is important because it makes our class look beautiful,” says Lennie during an interview with Water For People. She adds: “It helps us students be hygienic, so we won’t get diseases like diarrhea or cholera. These diseases can kill, they can make someone be absent from school and fail exams.” Lennie took a special interest in promoting these practices among her female classmates. “I’ve always wanted to help people,” explains Lennie in 2024,...

A farmer in Pakistan, Ghulam cares for his 12 family members on the little money he makes due to the poor farming conditions in his village. The sandy soils have restricted the farmland’s capacity for natural production because it does not retain water well. Ghulam was selected to have a water storage facility built on his farmland to help irrigate and drain the land through IRUSA’s Action for Drought Adaptive Practices and Transformation (ADAPT) project. This will prevent water wastage and have an immense effect on crop production. Thanks to your generous donations, Ghulam says that IRUSA has allowed “a new phase of life.”