Wash:Assist
Around the world, billions of people lack access to safe water, sanitation, and hygiene. Our WASH solution improves health outcomes and saves lives.
What’s The Issue?
Water Sanitation Hygiene
Around the world, billions of people lack access to safe water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH).
According to WHO, diarrheal disease is the second leading cause of death in children under five years old, and a significant proportion of these deaths can be prevented through safe water, sanitation, and hygiene.
This fundamental problem has profound health and socio-economic effects in low and middle-income countries, leading to disease, lack of education, and poverty.
Fetching water often lands on the shoulders of women and girls. This chore can limit their educational and economic opportunities.
Access to safe water is one of the most effective ways to improve the overall health of a community. Our self-contained Safe Water Filtration System is an excellent WASH infrastructure solution for healthcare facilities in rural and last-mile settings. Multiple systems can be connected together to increase capacity and meet the water needs of each facility.
New Program
ALLIANCE FOR NAVAJO SUSTAINABILITY
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the long-existing and intensifying lack of water security on Navajo Nation lands. As a result, the Alliance for Navajo Sustainability was formed as an effort to provide immediate water access and develop agricultural systems leading to improved overall health.
Our Impact
How It Works
Since 2006, we have collaborated with partners worldwide to provide Safe Water Filtration Systems. Most of the facilities are birthing centers or community clinics.
10 rural healthcare facilities, 2 district hospitals.
10 rural healthcare facilities.
6 rural healthcare facilities.
6 rural healthcare facilities, 2 district hospitals.
5 rural healthcare facilities, 2 district hospitals.
Our self-contained Safe Water Filtration System is an excellent WASH infrastructure solution for healthcare facilities in rural and last-mile settings. Multiple systems can be connected together to increase capacity and meet the water needs of each facility.
Total Catchment Population of People Impacted:
5,378,000
We have also installed stand-alone Safe Water Filtration Systems in Senegal, Kenya, and Haiti. Sometimes, we work with our partners to design a custom water project for a specific village. For example, we drilled a well in Jinja, Uganda, that provides clean water to an orphanage.
We built a clean water kiosk at a remote village in Rwanda. Today, we are exploring many other clean water technologies, including small filtration systems that purify water for people in remote and hard-to-reach areas.
Make A Donation
Support Wash:Assist
Assist International is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit organization since 1990 (ID: 77-0243475). All donations are tax deductible where allowed by law.
Donations via check or money order may be given by mail. Please make donations payable to “Assist International” and indicate any designations on the memo line.
Assist International
800 South Stockton Avenue
Ripon, CA 95366
Call (209) 599-1890 to make a donation by phone. Someone from our team will assist you and answer any questions you may have about your donation.
97% of every donation goes directly into our programs that address the needs of the world’s vulnerable people. We value the trust you have placed in our organization, and we strive for the highest financial accountability ratings.
