Today 2.5 billion people, including almost 1 billion children, live without even basic sanitation. Every 20 seconds, a child dies as a result of poor sanitation. That's 1.5 million preventable deaths each year. Surge helped prevent this by constructing Water Sanitation systems.
In 2009, Surge worked with our local partner and constructed Water Sanitation systems for the Gazipur district under the Dhaka division of Bangladesh. Approximately 56,000 households with 267,000+ people inhabit the area. The inhabitants are poor even by Bangladeshi standards, and household income is significantly below the national average of $150 per month. High prevalence of water-borne disease causes vulnerability to frequent ailments year-round.
