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What is the link between a bucket of water and education？
In many communities around the world， it's up to women and girls to provide water for their homes but when a girl has to walk for miles to fetch water， she doesn't have time to go to school or study. Women and girls spend 40 billion hours a year collecting water in sub-Saharan Africa - equivalent to a year's worth of labour by the entire French workforce， according to research. But fetching water is not the only reason girls are dropping out of school.
In countries that lack adequate sanitation， open defecation is one of the main causes of diarrhea and children lose 272 million school days every year due to the disease.
But even if a girl makes it to school， she may find the toilets there are designed mainly for boys， forcing her to skip school when she starts to menstruate because of a lack of privacy. Some countries lose more than $1 billion a year by failing to educate girls to the same level as boys so girls' education makes perfect sense.
In many communities around the world， it's up to women and girls to provide water for their homes but when a girl has to walk for miles to fetch water， she doesn't have time to go to school or study. Women and girls spend 40 billion hours a year collecting water in sub-Saharan Africa - equivalent to a year's worth of labour by the entire French workforce， according to research. But fetching water is not the only reason girls are dropping out of school.
In countries that lack adequate sanitation， open defecation is one of the main causes of diarrhea and children lose 272 million school days every year due to the disease.
But even if a girl makes it to school， she may find the toilets there are designed mainly for boys， forcing her to skip school when she starts to menstruate because of a lack of privacy. Some countries lose more than $1 billion a year by failing to educate girls to the same level as boys so girls' education makes perfect sense.