BBC Lifeline appeal

Margarida from Mozambique

Credit: WaterAid / Suzanne Fenwick

The BBC Lifeline Appeal showed WaterAid’s work in Mozambique in a national broadcast just before Songs of Praise on BBC ONE in the evening of Sunday 20 November.

BBC Lifeline will be helping women like Margarida from Mozambique who lost her six month old daughter, as well as her father, aged 60, to cholera. She thinks it was to do with problems with water. "It is difficult to get clean water in this area. Dirty water has diseases like cholera," she says. Margarida has to walk a long way each day to get water and has to pay for it when she gets there.

The death of her baby daughter was very hard for her. She died suddenly while recovering from malaria. The sickness started with diarrhoea. Margarida took her to hospital but was sent home as the doctors said the child wouldn’t survive. She died at home the same day.

"My daughter wouldn’t have died if there had been clean water," she says.

Please help WaterAid to help people like Margarida and her family gain access to a lasting supply of clean water...

>> Read more about the BBC Lifeline Appeal and WaterAid's work in Mozambique

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