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Thank You for Ten Years of Clean, Safe Water

Thank You for Ten years of Clean, Safe Water
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Beginning as a grassroots volunteer program in 2007, the UNICEF Tap Project evolved into a successful and innovative campaign that used a mobile app to save lives by providing children with clean water. In the span of a decade, the UNICEF Tap Project:

  • Directly benefited more than half a million people.
  • Raised over $6 million.
  • Supported UNICEF water, sanitation and hygiene programs in 12 countries. 

With deepest gratitude to all those who made the campaign a decade-long success, the UNICEF USA retired the UNICEF Tap Project campaign at the close of World Water Month 2016.

UNICEF USA continues to support essential UNICEF programs providing clean water and adequate sanitation to children around the world. You can help by donating; volunteering and advocating to support UNICEF’s work for children.

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Water Facts
2.6
billion
2.6 billion people have gained access to safe, clean water since 1990.
100
countries
UNICEF works in more than 100 countries to improve access to safe water and sanitation facilities.
1000
children
Nearly 1000 children die each day because of unsafe water or lack of sanitation facilities.
663
million
Around the world, 663 million people lack access to clean, safe water
2.4
billion
2.4 billion people don’t have access to a proper toilet.
UNICEF is water facilities in Domiz camp for Syrian refugees in northern Iraq, benefiting over 2,000 children.
Looking Back at the UNICEF Tap Project
It started with a challenge; it ended with over 500,000 people having access to safe water.
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INTERACTIVE: Explore UNICEF's Water Map
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In Haiti, Rosmaine Jean knows how to purify well water to keep her family free of cholera.
Our Hero: My Name Is Rosemaine Jean
In Haiti, Rosemaine Jean knows how to use clean water to keep her family safe from cholera. A short film from UNICEF USA.
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UNICEF Tap Project

Water and Hygiene Kits Needed to Protect Displaced Kids From COVID-19
Help fight COVID-19 by sending emergency supplies to protect displaced families and the health workers fighting to save them.
A young girl in Lagos, Nigeria holds a handwashing poster at a UNICEF-supported public awareness event to inform communities on how to protect themselves and their families from the novel coronavirus.
Helping Communities Fight the Spread of Coronavirus in Nigeria
UNICEF is supporting COVID-19 health education handwashing campaigns in Africa's most populous country.
In Haiti, Rosmaine Jean knows how to purify well water to keep her family free of cholera.
Our Hero: My Name Is Rosemaine Jean
In Haiti, Rosemaine Jean knows how to use clean water to keep her family safe from cholera. A short film from UNICEF USA.
A child plays with a container cap in untreated water coming from a sewer pipe in Amran Governate, Yemen, October 2017.
Giving Water
UNICEF works in more than 100 countries to improve water, sanitation and hygiene.
How the UNICEF Tap Project Brought Safe Water to Over 500,000 People
Learn about how the UNICEF Tap Project helped to save children in need all over the world by providing them access to clean water and adequate sanitation.
For Every Child, Hope — a Thank You to Our Supporters
Over 70 years, the world has changed, but children’s needs have not. Your support made a difference for children in 2016.
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