For people around the world who are affected by war and poverty, the simple act of washing their hands is a luxury. Aid groups say about 3 billion people cannot wash their hands at home, and communal water distribution points can spread coronavirus.
In this April, 24, 2020, photo, people wait to fetch water from a row of communal taps that the group Doctors Without Borders provided in a suburb of Harare, Zimbabwe. For people around the world who are affected by war and poverty, the simple act of washing hands is a luxury. In Zimbabwe, clean water is often saved for daily tasks like doing dishes and flushing toilets.
“I got the water, but chances are that I also got the disease,” she told The Associated Press. And yet her plans for the water did not include hand-washing but “more important” tasks such as cleaning dishes and flushing the toilet. In the Arab region alone, about 74 million people don’t have access to a basic hand-washing facility, the United Nations says.
And in Manaus, Brazil, 300 families in one poor indigenous community have water only three days a week from a dirty well. In rural parts of sub-Saharan Africa, where most have to travel up to three hours for water, “you have 200 people touching the handle one after the other,” said Bram Riems, an adviser on water, sanitation and hygiene with Action Against Hunger.
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