The Facts

• 80% of illnesses in developing countries are linked to infectious waterborne diseases.
• Over 300 million people in Africa do not have access to clean water.
• Every year 1.5 million children die from diarrhea globally.
• Every 20 seconds a child dies from a water related disease.
• In developing countries, women and girls walk on average 6 km a day carrying 20 liters of water.
• For every $1 invested in water and sanitation, on average, $8 is returned in increased productivity.
• Often times existing water systems are available but undrinkable.
• MIF has been successful in partnering with schools and a hospital by installing affordable commercial filtration systems that turn the unusable water to abundant clean water.

Water well financed by MIF 8 years ago and is producing clean water for the village

Jesus said, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”