February 2024

Water gives people back

Providing access to water gives people back their time. Safe water improves health and education. Communities begin to grow themselves out of poverty.  People just like you make it all possible. Students raise money in their neighborhoods, sororities organize entire campuses, companies pledge profits, and a couple of people even biked across Africa to help. Why don’t you come […]

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AFCHAID is developing ways to provide sustainable access to water.

It has become a conventional wisdom in policy circles that it is inappropriate to simply respond to people’s need for easy access to safe water without considering the consequences to sustainability and improved health. A simple “supply-driven approach” can meet the needs of the rural masses speedily, but the users lack a sense of responsibility

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Afchaid provides free medical care where it is needed most

After a three-hour walk to one of the health sites, the sight that greeted us was heart-wrenching. Families were living in makeshift shelters, their strength challenged by the harsh realities of life in the village. Our outreach team delivered much-needed medicines to many villages through partnership with the Garissa County Government Many lives are saved

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21st FEBRUARY: INTERNATIONAL MOTHER TONGUE DAY

International Mother Language Day is a worldwide annual observance held on 21 February to promote awareness of linguistic and cultural diversity and to promote multilingualism. First announced by UNESCO on 17 November 1999, it was formally recognized by the United Nations General Assembly with the adoption of UN resolution 56/262 in 2002. Mother Language Day is part of a broader initiative “to promote the preservation and protection of all languages used

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68,000 children affected by Nepal earthquake still need urgent assistance – UNICEF

KATHMANDU, Nepal, 11 February 2024 – 100 days after a 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck western Nepal on 3 November 2023, UNICEF is calling for continued support for 68,000 children and their families in the affected areas and appealing for US$14.7 million in funding to help rebuild the lives of the affected children. The earthquake, with its

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