Your Impact
At Dig Deep, we believe that everyone has the fundamental right to clean water, safe toilets and good hygiene.
Your fundraising challenge will help make this a reality.
Clean Water
Clean water is essential for drinking, cooking and cleaning to prevent the spread of deadly diseases.
At any given time, half of the world’s hospital beds are occupied by patients suffering from a water-related disease, such as typhoid and cholera.
Where we work, 2 out of 3 people don’t have access to clean water, putting them at greater risk of these diseases.
Safe Toilets
Without access to a safe toilet, people may be forced to go outside, which can spread diseases into nearby water sources.
Without toilets capable of safely managing their periods, women and girls often miss work and school, meaning they are disproportionately affected.
Where we work over half of households don’t have a safe toilet.
Good Hygiene
The time lost to sickness means that every year 443 million school days are missed and £200 billion is wiped from the global economy.
Having the knowledge and resources (such as clean water and soap) to maintain good hygiene are important for reducing the risk of illness and infection.
Where we work, most children don’t have access to basic hygiene education.
We know it’s local people that will overcome the water and sanitation crisis, and it's our job to help them dramatically speed this up.
So far we have supported civil servants, business people and community leaders to:
72
Build
water harvesting projects in schools and villages,
currently supplying over
35,000
people with clean water.
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children with a private and practical place to go to the toilet with dignity.
Build safe and hygienic latrines at
61
schools,
21,000+
Providing
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80,000+
people end open defecation in their communities.
Work with
166
villages to help
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26,000+
Deliver valuable hygiene and menstrual health education to
children and their
96,000+
family members through our network of local teachers and community health volunteers.
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Ivyne Chelangat, student at Kamegunyet Primary School
“As a school we are grateful for the construction of modern toilets and provisions of water. Since then our school has improved in terms of hygiene, academics and continuous surplus of water”
