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It is estimated that women and young girls worldwide lose literally millions of hours each year walking long distances to fetch water. In rural India, the water sources from which they draw are often contaminated open ponds and streams frequented by fowl and other animals.  Due to this untenable situation, many women and girls will lose years of their lives in the pursuit of drinking water riddled with what are preventable waterborne diseases.

March 22 was World Water Day -- a day sanctioned by the United Nations to spotlight the importance of sustainable potable water still unavailable to millions of people.

Thanks to donations from our supporters, SevaChild has completed 12 new wells in the remote tribal villages of Orissa since Christmas. That’s a total of 39 wells funded and completed that are now providing thousands of tribal men, women, and children with clean, uncontaminated drinking water for decades to come.

Since we last wrote to you, we have drilled another two wells and are on the verge of establishing several more within the next thirty days; however, we have 11 more villages earmarked for wells where the need is critical. These villagers need your support. 

Please remember the tribal families of Odisha who still suffer from the perils of contaminated water.