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Every 20 seconds, one child in our world dies from water-borne illness. This would wipe out a whole primary school class – every 10 minutes.

This is one of the reasons why we are working hard to provide clean water to hundreds of needy communities around the world. Through Turn on the Tap we are intensifying our efforts to provide safe accessible water. A big thank you to each and every one of you who have already participated in the campaign.

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Turn on the Tap is a massive undertaking designed to bring safe drinking water to over 30,000 people by World Water Day 2010. And a focal point of this work is in the Kampong Chhang region of Cambodia where we distributed 66,246 of the shoe boxes collected in 2008.

Kampong Chhnang is a region of Cambodia that is made up of nearly 9,000 people in 29 different communities. And while each person there is unique, they each face a common problem: a lack of safe drinking water.

Take Non Nuen, for example. As a villager in Kampong Chhnang, she would have feared giving water to her three small children just weeks ago because she knew it would make them sick again.

Thanks to Turn on the Tap, Non Nuen no longer has to fear that water will make her children sick.

But through our water filter projects she is now able to give her children fresh, clean water and she no longer has to fear that it will make them sick!

This is just one of the thousands of stories that is made possible because of your involvement in the Turn on the Tap campaign. Our commitment is to drill 145 wells and provide other needed resources for the community of Kampong Chhnang as part of the overall goal to provide safe water for more than 30,000 people.

Help us bring safe drinking water to over 30,000 people.

To date, over $150,000 has been given to Turn on the Tap, and it’s already changing lives… lives like Non Nuen’s!

So thank you for giving so generously to provide safe, clean water to the most needy. And please pray that God will continue to use Turn on the Tap to impact the lives of many more across Cambodia and beyond in the days to come.

Posted with tags: Cambodia , Health , Turn on The Tap , Water , Water Filter , Wells on Monday, May 11th, 2009 at 11:00 pm and is filed under May 09 Autumn Edition, Newsletters, Turn on The Tap, Water & Sanitation. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.