To free women and their families from water poverty
To build community owned and managed clean water structures
At Footsteps Africa, we understand access to and control over water is a key driver for empowering women to improve their health, productivity and rights in dry-land areas in Malawi. Against this, we engage and build capacities of women to not only access clean water but also to take control over its productive and sustainable uses . In this way, we create a multiple outcome in women’s lives from improving access to clean water and food, building income capacities, and improving their rights.
Our approach centers around building sustainable community water structures that generate clean water for women and their families.
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The appalling shortage of clean water structures and the social and economic barriers this creates in the lives of rural marginalized women living in dry-land areas provoked the foundation of Footsteps Africa. Footsteps Africa was founded on the basis of unconventionally using water to cascade incremental changes in the lives of marginalized women living in dry-land areas. The idea was to use access to clean water as the basis for building health and productive lives of women and their families.
The Ten Practical Sustainability Strategies at Footsteps Africa
At Footsteps Africa sustainability is an integral part of our work. This is reflected in our mission of work and what we do. Our whole organization mission of work and program strategies are built around sustainability. And we perceive sustainability through our key ten practical strategies: