Water for Life Initiative

Give Water. Give Life.

According to the World Health Organization, a child dies from a preventable disease associated with lack of clean water every 20 seconds.

But it doesn’t have to be this way! Often, just 80 meters below their feet are aquifers of pure, disease-free drinking water. By providing one deep-water well, we can help to break the cycle of disease and death and transform communities for a lifetime.

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A video that visually explains the Water for Life Initiative strategy.

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One of the first two deep-capped wells in southern Ethiopia (Source: GAiN Canada)

The other deep-capped wells in southern Ethiopia (Source: GAiN Canada)

A meeting with IAS re the new water project in Ethiopia (Source: GAiN Canada)

Villagers in Ethiopia use this dirty water source because they have no other option (Source: GAiN Canada)

Villagers in Ethiopia use this dirty water source because they have no other option (Source: GAiN Canada)

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A well in Benin, Africa (Source: GAiN Canada)

Buckets lined up for hours just to get clean water for their families (Source: GAiN Canada)

A gender equality training in Benin, Africa (Source: GAiN Canada)

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Training villagers on hygiene and sanitation (Source: GAiN Canada)

Training villagers on hygiene and sanitation (Source: GAiN Canada)

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One of GAiN's drilling rigs (Source: GAiN Canada)

Training villagers on hygiene and sanitation (Source: GAiN Canada)

A drilling team (Source: GAiN Canada)

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"Women and girls around the world face particular challenges, including access to sexual and reproductive health services. With Canada’s support to the work done by GAiN Canada, we continue to address many of those challenges, by helping to improve the health of women and children in rural areas of Benin and Togo."

Marie-Claude Bibeau, Minister of International Development and La Francophonie

Maternal, Newborn and Child Health

An exciting new project where we are strengthening health systems, reducing disease and improving nutrition in Africa.

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In the next 5 years...

Our dream is to see another 1,000,000 people impacted in 5 years. As we look to the future, our desire is to grow our program and expand our impact even wider and deeper into the communities.

Find out our future plans