A boy heads home with a container of water bought from a water seller, in the impoverished Cité l’Eternel neighbourhood of Port-au-Prince, the capital.
Photo: UNICEF/NYHQ2010-2450/Marco Dormino
All children have the right to be healthy. Yet thousands of
children die every day because they don’t have enough access to safe water and
sanitation services. Every year, diarrhoea claims the lives of 1.5 million
children and has a serious impact on the
welfare of millions more. This is wrong.
UNICEF works in more than 90 countries around the world to
put it right by improving water supplies and sanitation facilities in schools
and communities, and promoting safe hygiene practices.