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Sibonelo laughs as he and two friends wash their hands in a plastic basin before they eat lunch.
With the help of Global Parents, UNICEF is teaching children like Sibonelo to wash their hands with soap
before eating and after going to the toilet. In schools and play centres across Lesotho, a poor country in southern Africa, Global Parents are giving children the skills to protect themselves from death and disease.
$25 provides a family with buckets, soap and water purification tablets, giving vital clean water.
These simple measures really can save young lives - crucial in a country as impoverished as Lesotho. Here, one out of every five children dies before the age of five. Global Parents are helping to change this.
Many children die simply due to a lack of clean water. When a child drinks dirty, contaminated water, or is unable to wash his hands, he becomes sick, weak, and unable to fight off diseases. Sadly, many children waste away from diseases such as diarrhoea - diseases that are entirely preventable and do not pose a threat in developed countries like New Zealand.
With the help of Global Parents, UNICEF is bringing clean drinking water to children in Lesotho. We are also encouraging new mothers to breastfeed their newborns, so that babies get the best start in life rather than drink unsafe water.
We believe that it is a gross injustice for children in the world's poorest countries to risk their lives by drinking dirty water. Become a Global Parent today, to help children like Sibonelo not just survive, but thrive.
Sibonelo is a pseudonym to protect his identity.
