Agenda

01 What is World Vision?

02 Fast Facts: Global Water Crisis

03 World Vision’s Water Work

04 Timeline of World Vision’s water work

05 World Vision’s 2030 goal for its water programs

What is World Vision?
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Background

Who is World Vision?

World Vision is a global Christian relief, development,

and advocacy organization dedicated to working with
children, families, and communities to overcome poverty
and injustice.
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Background

How long has World Vision been in operation?

World Vision was founded in 1950 by the Rev. Bob Pierce

in response to the needs of Korean War orphans.
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Background

What types of projects does World Vision do?

World Vision projects may be grouped into three areas:

1) Short-term emergency relief;
2) Long-term sustainable community development focusing
on helping communities meet the legitimate needs its
members identify, and
3) Working with policymakers and the public at the national,
regional, and global level
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Global Water Crisis
Fast Facts

• 844 million people lack basic drinking water access, more than 1
of every 10 people on the planet.
• Women and girls spend an estimated 200 million hours hauling
water every day.
• The average woman in rural Africa walks 6 kilometers every day
to haul 40 pounds of water.
• Every day, more than 800 children under age 5 die from diarrhea
attributed to poor water and sanitation.
• 2.3 billion people live without access to basic sanitation.
• 892 million people practice open defecation.
• 90 percent of all natural disasters are water-related.
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World Vision’s efforts:

Promoting healthy
Drilling, developing Teaching local Overseeing the hygiene practices
and repairing wells community mem- building of latrines through education
and other vital bers how to keep and hand-washing and behavior
water points water flowing facilities change
programming.
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water projects.
TIMELINE
World Vision’s
Severe droughts in Africa water work
focus the world’s attention
on the urgent need for
clean, accessible water.

World Vision begins water

drilling projects in Ghana.

World Vision increases its

commitment to clean water,
and the Conrad N. Hilton
Foundation partners in the
Ghana water effort.
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World Vision’s
West Africa Water Initiative water work
extends drilling
into Mali and Niger.

West Africa’s 2,000th well

is drilled in Ghana.

Large-scale water work

begins in Ethiopia.
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beings in Zambia, including
sanitation and hygiene
TIMELINE
practices.

World Vision begins intentional

World Vision’s
scale-up of water and sanitation water work
activities in 10 countries in
Africa. Numbers of clean water
beneficiaries increase 20-fold
when comparing 2010 to 2016.

Drilling begins in Honduras.

Drilling begins in India. World Vision

and Procter & Gamble (P&G) celebrate
a partnership that has provided 1 billion
liters of purified water, hosting former
President Bill Clinton and Chelsea
Clinton to see the impact in Rwanda.
In December, the U.S.
Congress passes Water for the
World Act, prioritizing the
provision of clean water and
TIMELINE
sanitation for the world’s most
vulnerable people.
World Vision’s
World Vision announces in September
plans to reach one new person with
water work
clean water every 10 seconds by 2020
— eventually achieving universal water
access everywhere it works by 2030.

World Vision expands its water,

sanitation, and hygiene work into more
countries in Latin America and the
Caribbean, along with the Middle East,
reaching 4.6 million new people with
clean water.

World Vision now reaches one new

person every 10 seconds with clean water. In
June, World Vision drills its 1,500th borehole
well since 2003 in Mali.
World Vision sets ambitious
goals for global water work
TIMELINE
World Vision’s
20 million new people water work
served with clean water

Clean water made

available for everyone,
everywhere we work
in Rwanda.

50 million people —
everyone, everywhere we
work — have access to
clean water and sanitation.
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for its water programs

The World Vision believes through

partnering with local governments,
communities, and other humanitarian
organizations, collectively they can help
achieve this goal based on what’s been
achieved over the last three years —
they reached more than 12.7 million
people with clean water.