Suzanne Fletcher's Blog

Whilst we are rushing around sorting out not only what we are going to eat, but what we drink over Christmas, it is easy to forget that other parts of the world do not have the very basics of clean water to drink, to say nothing of proper sanitation.  We were given a card from Water Aid at Church this morning about this, pointing out that in 1858 in London, children died in their thousands from diseases because the River Thames was literally an open sewer.  Action was taken, health was improved and lives were saved.  This is what must happen in other Countries today., where 5,000 children a day are dying from related diseases.  We've sent a postcard to the Japanese Prime Minister, who is hosting the 2008 G8 summit, calling for the G8 to make an extraordinary effort and agree a global action plan for sanitation and water.  You can add your name on the web based petition.

As it says on the card, G8 must act.  Poverty will never be eradicated where people have nowhere to go to the toilet.