We need you

Talk to any girl in Africa and she will tell you exactly what she wants. 

She wants an education. She wants a career. She wants to make a contribution other than to the household.

She wants to be a teacher, a lawyer, a politician, a world leader. 

A financially independent woman. 

There’s something stopping these girls fulfilling their dreams. Fulfilling dreams that we take for granted.

Water. 

Access to water. 

Lack of access to safe water and sanitation is the primary reason girls drop out of school. African culture sees a woman’s place as in the kitchen, looking after the family and collecting water for their household. In Sub Saharan African, 68% of the rural population spend more than 1 hour per trip of water collection making it impossible for girls to attend school. 

Women and girls especially bear the burden of walking miles at a time to gather water from streams and ponds - full of water-borne disease that is making them and their families sick.

Safe water unlocks a community’s girls to learn, to develop and to experience the life they want to lead.

Here at Empower, we need your help. 

Empower work with local in-country teams and partners to develop clean water programs. Empower is working very hard to build long-term, truly sustainable water projects that are held to a measurable standard of success over the long term.

We need your help to give these girls the freedom to carry out their dreams and the only way to do this is with convenient access to safe and clean water. Hope is put on hold in over half of the developing world's primary schools without access to water and sanitation.

We want to give them that hope back.

Just £1 can make the difference.

Donate what you can and come on this journey with us, to empower these African girls today, for a freer and happier tomorrow.