Easy Water restores a teenager’s dream

Gloria Kudekey, a 17-year-old from Aflive Amesukpe, an island community in the Greater Accra region, Ghana, wants to become a nurse but skin diseases from contaminated water drawn from the Volta River have affected her concentration, imperiling her dream.

“We always drank from heavily polluted water source and the health consequences have been dire,” said Kudekey, who has witnessed the effects of Typhoid fever, cholera, dysentery and Hepatitis A on her friends and family.

In Ghana, municipal, domestic and industrial waste contaminate 60 percent of surface waters and degrade ecosystems and biodiversity, especially downstream of the capital Accra and the second largest city, Kumasi.

Then help arrived.

Easy Water for Everyone, a nonprofit whose mission is to bring pure and safe drinking water to every person who lives in a rural community with no access to electricity, donated the NUF500 filtration system, which removes bacteria and viruses from dirty water.

Almost overnight, the quality of life for over 150 of the village’s inhabitants improved. Gloria said the skin diseases afflicting her have cleared up her hope of becoming a nurse has been rejuvenated.

Thanks to our donors like you, we were able to improve the quality of life for Madam Owulah, but there are many other communities like hers that need your help. Please consider a donation. Every dollar will go directly to providing safe drinking water for families in sub-Saharan Africa.