Tap Project
Water is probably the world’s single most plentiful resource. Yet, water is a daily privilege millions take for granted. The little known truth is that lack of clean and accessible drinking water is the second largest worldwide killer of children under five.
To address this situation, the U.S. Fund for UNICEF launched the Tap Project, a campaign that celebrates the clean and accessible tap water available as an every day privilege to millions, while helping UNICEF provide safe drinking water to children around the world.
As the world's leading children's organization, UNICEF understands the critical role water plays in a child's survival. Currently, UNICEF is on the ground in over 150 countries and territories to help children survive and thrive, from early childhood through adolescence and provides access to safe water and sanitation facilities while promoting safe hygiene practices in more than 90 countries. By 2015, through meeting the Millennium Development Goals, UNICEF aims to reduce the number of people without safe water and basic sanitation by 50 per cent.
In Côte d’Ivoire, more than 8 million people – 43 per cent of the country’s population – lack appropriate sanitation facilities and over 4 million people still use unsafe drinking water sources, especially in rural areas. Consequently, many children die every day from diarrhea and other diseases related to the lack of water and appropriate sanitation; many more suffer and are weakened by illness.
Learn more about UNICEF’s work with regard to water and sanitation in Côte d’Ivoire
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Lucy Liu in Côte d’Ivoire
Lucy Liu, actress and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, visited Côte d’Ivoire from 9 to 11 March, 2008 to see first hand the threat to child survival caused by the lack of access to clean drinking water. She used this experience on World Water Day week to advocate for the Tap Project, an American campaign that celebrates the clean and accessible tap water while helping UNICEF provide safe drinking water to children around the world.
Listen to an interview with ONUCI FM
Listen to the tap project radio spot
