Each year more than 5 million people globally die from water related disease.  In Kenya and Burundi, more than 65% of all illness is caused from drinking contaminated water.  Even worse, 40% of the population has no access to clean water at all!

During each moment of the day, every 15 seconds, children are getting sick and die from diarrhea, dysentery, and typhoid; all preventable illnesses if only clean drinking water was available. 

Last year in Kenya, 10% of all deaths were attributed to water related illness and 30% of these were children under the age of 5 years old.  Over 80% of these deaths were children under the age of 14! 

The country of Burundi has a similar crisis with more than 14% of all deaths caused by illness stemming from contaminated drinking water. 

Access to clean drinking water in the remote regions of Kenya and Burundi is at a critical stage.  Children leave schools to go and collect dirty water from local streams and ground puddles.  This back breaking work prevents the children from receiving an education and leads to preventable illness.  Grow Missions focuses our efforts on providing clean water to these remote schools and villages to not only end this crisis but to re-energize the educational systems in these areas.

If rural parts of Kenya and Burundi, Africa women and children must walk an average of 6KM to collect dirty water in buckets and pales and then carry this home on their heads.  Working over 3 hours each day they still can only gather enough water to survive and often still have no means of boiling of removing the bacteria in the water they collected.

While we here in the US use an average of 138 gallons of water each day (as an individual), these families work painstaking hours to gather and use only 5 gallons per day per family.

Grow Missions designs, funds, and supervises the construction of Rain Water Harvesting and filtration systems at local Primary and Secondary schools to not only end this crisis caused by contaminated water, but to also focus the efforts back on the children and link education and clean water together for an improved future in the region.  Freeing the children from the work of gathering water, they can no attend school and receive the added benefit of taking clean drinking water home at the end of the day.