The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that in 2003, approximately 1.1 billion people had no access to safe water and 2.4 billion had no basic sanitation.	Principally affected are the poor and the disadvantaged who live in rural and/or "socially compressed" areas.  They suffer and die without safe water.  Lack of clean water and sanitation leads to a wide range of potential diseases. These include cholera, typhoid, malaria, yellow fever, filariasis, river blindness, sleeping sickness, guinea worm, bilharzia, trachoma, scabies, and more.
Most importantly, dirty water is often the cause of ordinary childhood diarrhea, a leading killer of African children.  Overall, more than 2.2 million people, mostly in developing countries, die each year from diseases associated with poor sanitation.  Over 250 million people each year suffer from diseases related to water and sanitation and 6,000 children die from them every day.  (That's 14 children every second of every day!)
This is a fixable problem!	The Rwanda Clean Water Project envisions people of Rwanda no longer suffering from the illness, death, and disease that comes from unclean water. By collectively working together to provide clean water solutions throughout Rwanda, the people will benefit immensely. According to the Fermi Project, it only takes $3000 to dig a well in a rural areas of war-torn Rwanda.  Wells of this nature provide approximately 750 men, women, and children within several miles a sustainable clean water solution in their local community.
My family and I are asking God to help us build a well so that children won't become sick and die. Jyoti Sinclaire O'Neil Click here to see a 4-minute video about the Fermi Well Project.