Village Water

Aqua Express are proud to announce that after a year of discussions, we have finally chosen a great charity to support in the forthcoming years, Village Water are a UK based charity dedicated to providing sustainable water and sanitation based solutions in Zambia.

UK Charity Number: 1117377 - Safe water and sanitation, one Village at a time

Carol Fraser our MD said: "It has taken us a long time, and a great amount of thought to decide which charity we wanted to support, we knew we wanted a water based charity, but which one, was a dilemma. Village Water managed to tick all the right boxes."

The Aqua Express Charity Target for 2012 will be £5000.00, all in aid of Village Water.

 

To make a donation to the Aqua Express Challenge Fund click here for details

 

Village Water provides hygiene education and sustainable water for rural villages in western Zambia. They only install protected shallow wells with manual water pumps that allow the people to draw uncontaminated water from underground.

 

How the Water and Sanitation programme works

Through your support and ours, we can help Village Water change the fact that....

54% of people in rural Zambia do not have access to safe water

Diarrhoea kills more children every year than AIDS, Malaria and Measles combined

1% of the Zambia population are blind, a high % of this blindness is caused by Trachoma which is a preventable diseased caused by poor sanitation and an inadequate water supply