Committee: World Health Organization

Country: Chile

Topic: Providing Clean Drinking Water in Sub-Saharan Africa

School: International High School

Sponsors: Mrs.Kapral, Ms.Fugit, Mr.Siegren, Ms.Bailey

Name: Karla Perez

Greetings Honorable Students & teachers

The world today is facing one of its major problems, one of the problems deals with
the limited access to clean water in Sub-Saharan Africa or sometimes not even have clean
water. People who haves access to clean water have clean water is about 31%. 1.6 million
Of people die every year of just diarrhea diseases. More than one third of the world suffer
from this problem and people not only get diseases but die trying to find clean water.
Most of the population in Africa does not have access to fresh clean water. Related
diseases are Malaria, Tuberculosis, Nutrition, and environmental sanitation. These
diseases affect this particular people in this continent across the world different countries
face this problem Chile has faced this problem before.

This problem affected Chile also because an earthquake and a tsunami that hit the town
of Dichato, Chile destroyed everything and people stayed with no sanitation and nothing.
So that’s why there’s this program called The Procter & Gamble Company that help out
many countries around the world that have no sanitation. This company is helping out in
the Sub-Saharan Africa because is in need of help because many kids and people are
dying because of no sanitation of water. It has provided its two billionth litre of clean
drinking water through the P&G Children’s Safe Drinking Water Program. This company
works out by providing two billion litres of clean drinking water through a variety of
strong partnerships and emergency relief efforts around the world. Chile has not only
helped out the Sub-Saharan Africa but it had helped over 57 countries to provide two
billion liters of clean water. The CSDW programmed is most active on the African
continent, where it aims it to provide clean drinking water for the most vulnerable
including small children and those living with disease such as HIV/AIDS ect.

P&G works with more than 80 partners globally and has committed to provide four
billion liters of clean drinking water by 2012, using the PUR water purification packets.
P&G is committed to improving the lives of people around the globe, saving children's
lives and providing clean drinking water to as many people as possible. The P&G CSDW
Program is the focal philanthropic initiative of the Company’s overall cause effort. The
world is expected to exceed the Millennium Development Goals target of halving the
proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water with
the exception of Sub-Saharan Africa. Even so, 672 million people will still lack
access to improved drinking water sources in 2015.