19 2019 Two completed projects that bring water and sanitation to two regions in Mauritania and Uganda They have been carried out hand in hand with Save the Children and World Vision and directly benefit more than 1,800 people In the last few months the We Are Water Foundation hashave been promoted and culinary demonstrations have completed two of the projects it carries out, which bringbeen performed. sanitation and drinking water to two of the mostAll this results in the reduction of the transmission of disadvantaged regions in Mauritania and Uganda.diseases through water, sanitation or inadequate hygiene The first project, carried out in the Brakna regionpractices, mainly diarrhea. (Mauritania), has improved the access to drinking water andThe second project has supplied water to the St. Mary hygiene practices of very poor families with children underKevin Motherhood Orphanage and School in Lweza, the age of five. Uganda, directly benefitting 300 children, 200 of whom are Developed hand in hand with Save the Children, it has orphans. directly benefitted more than 1,500 people residing in oneA water system was built there featuring a solar energy of the poorest regions in Mauritania, with a poverty rate ofdriven water pump that will allow the school to use the more than 40%. water from the well and supply its different services by This project aims to reduce child malnutrition through themeans of a sustainable and low cost drinking water improvement of one of its underlying causes, the access tosupply system. water, sanitation and hygiene. The impact of the project, developed hand in hand with 250 households classified as “very poor” received a hygieneWorld Vision, will go beyond the access to drinking water kit containing chloride for the water treatment at home,throughout the year. It will have an impact on health, soap to promote the washing of hands, a container to storeespecially that of children. reducing the diseases caused water and powder detergent, used for general cleaning inby the use of non-drinking water and on nutrition, and the the area. children will be able to make the most of the education The distribution of kits has been combined withthey receive. sessions in which the use of the distributed products has been explained, hygiene and nutrition practices Hygiene practices are promoted The access to drinking water has been improved in Mauritania Orphanage in Uganda 31