Meet Madalitso

Your World Vision 40 Hour Challenge can change everything with clean water for kids like Madalitso.

Nine-year-old Madalitso from Malawi urgently needs clean water

There’s no running water in Madalitso’s home. No taps she can turn on. Her closest water source is a shallow well, but the water there isn’t safe.

“The water from the well is bad. It has germs that make us sick,” she says. “When I go to fetch water, I have to climb inside the well, remove the algae and start drawing the water.

"Then I put the bucket on my head and walk back. I try not to slip. My head hurts. My neck hurts.”


If Madalitso walks further in search of clean water, it means she misses school.

“When I’m late for school, the teachers send us back home. I want to become a nurse to help sick people. When I can’t go to school, my dreams of becoming a nurse fade away.”

Having clean water close to home would change everything for Madalitso. “We wouldn’t be late to school.

My siblings and I would get there early! We wouldn’t suffer from sickness. My parents would be able to work.”

It's simple: Your World Vision 40 Hour Challenge can change everything for kids like Madalitso.
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Your hard mahi last year helped change everything for Prisca!

Your hard mahi last year helped change everything for Prisca!

Prisca used to have to miss school to collect water that wasn't even safe to drink. But you helped change that! Today, Prisca and her whole community can get clean water from a new borehole right outside Prisca's front door.

Emily, one of your World Vision 40 Hour Challenge Youth Ambassadors, recently visited Prisca in Malawi. "It was such a highlight to go with Prisca on her walk to her old, dirty water source and then compare it to the freshly installed borehole. That borehole wouldn't be there without your hard mahi last year in raising funds through the World Vision 40 Hour Challenge," says Emily.

"I've seen for myself the World Vision 40 Hour Challenge works and the money we raise here in Aotearoa is making such an impact on people's lives."

 

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