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Developers Against Poverty

Right now, almost a billion people on the planet don’t have access to clean, safe drinking water. That’s one in eight of us.

Unsafe water and lack of basic sanitation cause 80% of diseases and kill more people every year than all forms of violence, including war. Children are especially vulnerable, as their bodies aren't strong enough to fight diarrhea, dysentery and other illnesses.

90% of the 42,000 deaths that occur every week from unsafe water and unhygienic living conditions are to children under five years old. Many of these diseases are preventable. The UN predicts that one tenth of the global disease burden can be prevented simply by improving water supply and sanitation.

Developers Against Poverty is a campaign that will run during February and March 2011 asking software developers from around the world to help bring clean water to areas of that world that lack it. The aim is to raise $75,000 to ensure clean water for the next 20 years for 3,750 people.

Hands showing poor quality drinking water containing disease