Water and Sanitation Program in Myanmar

Finding clean drinking water is difficult in remote areas of Myanmar. © CPM 2008

Villagers in remote areas of Myanmar spend many hours collecting water for their personal and household needs. Water sources are often contaminated, making diseases such as diarrhoea and dysentery common and dangerous enough to be life threatening. Diocesan workers require travel permits to enter different areas along the way, making travel time-consuming and difficult. The diocese persists, however, as clean water reduces disease and gives people more time to grow plants and raise healthy animals, all of which puts food on the table. The diocese also builds fly proof toilets that are made from plastic commodes and short pipes.

In the past few years ABM has funded the Diocese of Toungoo which provides water and sanitation systems to a number of villages. They have achieved much, but there is still a huge need for clean water, so ABM is seeking to expand this program to other dioceses.

Here are some of the ways your gift may be used:

  • $9 is the price of a bag of cement, used to construct tanks
  • $15 will pay for 1 cubic ft of sand
  • $75 covers the cost of a family well
  • $187 is the cost of a brick cistern
  • $1,000 pays for a water system supplying an entire village

This project needs $15,000 in 2009.

You can Donate Now to this project by selecting Myanmar Water and Sanitation Program from the full project list.

Project information can be downloaded here.