Key Aims
- By 2030, reduce the global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 100,000 live births
- By 2030, end preventable deaths of newborns and children under 5 years of age, with all countries aiming to reduce neonatal mortality to at least as low as 12 per 1,000 live births and under-5 mortality to at least as low as 25 per 1,000 live births
- By 2030, end the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and neglected tropical diseases and combat hepatitis, water-borne diseases and other communicable diseases
- By 2030, reduce by one third premature mortality from non-communicable diseases through prevention and treatment and promote mental health and well-being
How Just a Drop Impacts
Access to safe water and sanitation is a major factor in reaching targets for improving global health. Safe water and sanitation together with hygiene practices such as handwashing reduce infant mortality and water-related diseases.
Diarrhoeal diseases are primarily spread through a lack of water, sanitation and hygiene, and are the second biggest single killer of children under five. Just a Drop’s clean water, sanitation and hygiene projects reduce diarrhoeal diseases among the communities we work with.
Across our projects we install private, safe and gender-sensitive latrines which promote well-being among girls and women, as do our menstrual health programmes.
In health centres, like Wakiso Health Centre in Uganda, we provide piped water, allowing the buildings to operate more safely and hygienically. As well as this, we have built gender-sensitive latrines and incinerators for waste, ensuring that both health and wellbeing are central to the project.
The COVID-19 pandemic showed the importance of our work. In 2020, our COVID-19 response work reached 151,094 people in Uganda, Zambia and Kenya, teaching communities the importance of good hygiene and social distancing to stop the spread of the deadly virus.
