Support Health

Provide a brighter future for communities by providing life-saving water, health and sanitation facilities.

How your support helps

Clean, safe water

A water tank in a community means children no longer have to walk to collect water and are better protected from waterborne illness. They can attend school and build a brighter future.

Toilets

When you buy a toilet, you are providing the facilities that will help to improve the health and hygiene of children and their family, as well as giving them increased safety and security immediately, and long into the future.

Bore hole pumps

When you provide materials for a bore hole pump, it is an investment in the future of children, their families and communities. With access to clean water, children can attend school, waterborne illness is reduced and crops thrive.

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Lilian's Story

When she was two years old, Lillian lost the ability to walk. Her sole carer, her grandmother, had to carry her granddaughter on her back or leave her sitting in one place for hours. Eventually, Lillian learned to walk again but she had ongoing challenges.

Ten years ago, life changed for Lillian. She went to live at The Salvation Army’s Home of Joy (Uganda), where she was able to go to school and learn hairdressing skills.

Through another Salvation Army project that helps provide a safe environment and practical support for children, including those living with disabilities, Lillian was reunited with her grandmother.

She says: “My family and I are grateful for the continued love and empowerment. I can freely associate with my friends now that I am back in the community. I am helping grandmother with domestic work, and we are living a happy life.”

You can provide a brighter future for children and save lives as a supporter for Water & Health.

Each day, nearly 1,000 children around the world die due to preventable water and sanitation-related diseases. 2.4 billion people lack access to basic sanitation services, such as toilets or latrines, and 1.8 billion people rely on contaminated water sources.^Link

Poverty and poor health are strongly linked. With limited access to clean water and poor hygiene practices, children are often sick and cannot attend school. Their communities struggle with preventable disease and ongoing malnutrition.

As a supporter for Water & Health, you will help save lives by giving children access to things that we take for granted every day – fresh water, clean toilets, and basic healthcare training.

You can support The Salvation Army's vital water, health and sanitation projects around the world. Some of the ways you'll make a difference are:

Installing water pipes, tanks, taps and toilets in schools and communities
Educating children and communities about good hygiene practices, nutrition, maternal and child health and disease prevention
Training health workers and birth attendants
Building capacity to advocate for health services
Empowering people living with a disability through community-based rehabilitation
Facilitating home-based care and support for people living with HIV

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The Salvation Army acknowledges the Traditional Owners of country throughout Australia and recognises their continuing connection to land, waters and community. We pay our respects to them and their cultures; and to elders both past and present.