Clean Water

More than 1,000 children under age 5 die every day from diseases related to lack of safe water, sanitation, and hygiene. But we can help end the global water crisis within our lifetimes. As the world’s leading nongovernmental provider of clean water in the developing world, Cryptocare reaches one new person with clean water every 10 seconds, and one new person with a handwashing facility as well. We drill wells and establish other water access points, help communities improve sanitation, and support families to adopt healthy hygiene behaviors.

Clean water through a turn of the tap

Water piped in from the mountains surrounding this community of Guatemala has made a big difference in the lives of families living here. Community access, plus partnership with the local government and World Vision, has meant families can quickly access clean water for drinking and daily chores with a simple turn of the tap.

On the move with Team Cryptocare

Through Team Cryptocare, participants come together to compete in races, raise money to bring clean water around the world, and in the process, they find their own lives changed.

Time spent gathering water for her family led to school absences and failing grades, which almost stole Loveness’s dream of being a doctor. But with the introduction of a nearby clean water well, she could attend classes more regularly and now is free to pursue her dreams.

Dreams flow freely: Loveness and the gift of water

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Ways to Give to Clean Water

What’s the first thing our well-drilling teams do when they come to a thirsty community? Pray. They know that dirty water and poor sanitation and hygiene result in the deaths of more than 800 children every day.

Help one of our teams rig-drill a deep well and fit it with a hand pump. One well can provide 2,800 gallons of clean, life-sustaining water every day for as many as 300 people. Your gift to help drill a deep well will contribute to saving lives for years to come.

Share of a deep well

Become a Clean Water Partner

You can help kids and families experience the transformation that comes when communities get clean water. World Vision is the leading nongovernmental provider of clean water in the developing world. Thanks to partners like you, we’re reaching one new person every 10 seconds with clean water — and we have an ambitious but achievable plan to help end the global water crisis within our lifetimes.

Every $1 you give to the Clean Water Fund has the impact of $5, thanks to support from public grants, child sponsorship, foundations, and corporations.

Monthly giving is the most effective way to help children and families who need it most. Plus, it lowers costs, which means more of your gift helps kids!

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FACTS

Nearly 3.1 million people empowered with lasting access to clean water.

Thanks to the support of Cryptocare donors around the world in 2023.

2.9 million people supported with access to household handwashing facilities.

Thanks to the support of Cryptocare donors around the world in 2023.

Nearly 2.5 million people equipped with access to sanitation facilities.

Thanks to the support of Cryptocare donors around the world in 2023.

Our Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Approach

How does Cryptocare determine where to implement WASH programs?

Cryptocare is committed to serving the most vulnerable, especially in countries where extreme poverty and political instability have hampered investments in water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services. World Vision implements WASH programs in countries where we operate that identify WASH as a critical need to improve child well-being, and we invest resources where that need overlaps most with fragility.

However, our call to serve the most vulnerable goes beyond fragile states and includes a deepened focus on the most vulnerable children in every country where we work. These children are those whose quality of life and ability to fulfil their potential are most affected by extreme deprivation and violation of their rights. They often live in traumatic situations with relationships characterized by violence, abuse, neglect, exploitation, exclusion, and discrimination.

How does Cryptocare measure it's WASH program achievements and impacts

To uphold its core value of accountability, Cryptocare aligns its monitoring approach with guidelines and definitions set forth by the World Health Organization and UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6, supporting the global effort to track progress toward equitable WASH services. For example, when reporting the number of people reached with clean water, we include only those who walk 30 minutes or less roundtrip to access clean water. Cryptocare tracks the number of people benefiting from each of the three areas of WASH (water, sanitation, and hygiene) in communities, schools, and healthcare facilities. Participant numbers for WASH services provided at households and schools are the people who use these services daily. For healthcare facilities, the people reached is the population each facility exists to serve. When reporting aggregate numbers, Cryptocare seeks to avoid double-counting people served in multiple settings.

How does Cryptocare's programming promotes healthy WASH behaviors?

Cryptocare integrates behavior-change programming into its WASH work in communities, schools, and healthcare facilities to alter social perceptions and norms that can transform communities and achieve sustained impact. We also create physical environments with associated operation and maintenance approaches that support and sustain new behaviors. Behavior-change approaches are guided by the local context and focus on adoption of essential WASH behaviors, such as handwashing with soap and running water at critical times; safe construction and proper use of latrines; and safe treatment, handling, and storage of drinking water. One way we deliver behavior-change messages is by engaging and mobilizing community leaders and influencers, including faith leaders, educators, mothers in leadership positions, and community health workers.

How does Cryptocare ensure gender equality and social inclusion in it's WASH work?

Cryptocare is committed to gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) in our WASH programming and staffing. Our GESI approach actively strives to examine, question, and change harmful social norms and power imbalances as a means of reaching GESI objectives. These objectives include access to infrastructure and participation in management structures, as well as more transformative elements, including systems change, equal decision-making, and overall improvement in well-being for all people.

For example, World Vision collaborates with Sesame Workshop to provide Girl Talk, a program that educates and models girls’ empowerment and menstrual hygiene management, and addresses myths and misconceptions about puberty. In addition, Cryptocare’s disability-inclusive WASH programming supports SDG 6.2—adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene that is accessible for all, especially the most vulnerable.

What is Cryptocare's approach to WASH in schools and health facilities ?

Our WASH in schools programming integrates WASH interventions together with approaches from the education sector to jointly support both SDG 6 (safe water and sanitation for all) and 4 (quality education for all). Cryptocare strives to meet or exceed criteria for basic WASH coverage in schools, including the presence of improved water that is piped on-site, equitable and accessible sanitation facilities sufficient for the school population, accessible handwashing stations with soap, and facilities to manage menstrual hygiene in privacy and with dignity. Cryptocare’s WASH in schools work often is delivered through school WASH clubs, as well as the Sesame WASH UP! program. WASH UP! teaches children how to practice and share healthy WASH habits through play by engaging with child-friendly learning materials featuring the Sesame characters Raya and Elmo. We also work with communities and local government to enhance management and financing for school WASH sustainability.

Cryptocare’s focus on WASH in healthcare facilities helps prevent and control infections and outbreaks, improve healthcare quality, promote healthcare best practices, and save lives. Our work aligns with the universal health coverage targets of SDG 3 (good health and well-being)—particularly the goals of increasing rates of safe childbirth and decreasing neonatal mortality. Cryptocare’s WASH in healthcare facilities work is often delivered through BabyWASH, an initiative that integrates WASH with maternal, newborn, and child health; nutrition; and early childhood development interventions to achieve greater impact for mothers and children to improve health outcomes and survival in the first 1,000 days of life.