By Cindy Ragab | Global Communications Coordinator
The Dispensers for Safe Water program has transitioned to Evidence Action and is currently providing over 1.2 million Kenyans with sustained access to clean water through over 5,200 dispensers. The chlorine dispensers have maintained high adoption rates by communities. Rigorous evaluations found that less than 1 in 6 households chlorinated their water without dispenser access, but more than 40% of households with access to a dispenser chlorinate their drinking water. Drinking chlorinated water reduces diarrhea – a top cause of child mortality in Kenya- by 41% and reduces the irreversible effects of stunted growth.
Evidence Action aims to take this proven development intervention to scale. To this end, we are working towards serving over 5 million Kenyans by 2016. We will install more than 7,000 new dispensers in 2014.
In 2013, Evidence Action launched a new, innovative partnership with Kiva which will fund sustained clean water access for up to 600,000 additional Kenyans in the next two years. Carbon credits will finance the project for sustainable service delivery into the future, making it possible for communities to reap the benefits of their carbon offsets.
To learn more about the progress of the Dispensers for Safe Water Program, please visit our website at evidenceaction.org. You can sign up for our newsletter on the homepage. We also post frequent updates on our Facebook and Twitter accounts at Facebook.com/evidenceaction and Twiitter.com/EvidenceAction.
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