Orlando for Soccer Aid 2008

In July 2008 Orlando travelled to Nepal with the Soccer Aid film crew. Their mission was to get an understanding of how people in rural Nepal get clean water.
You can read the narration of their trip at this link:
http://socceraid.unicef.org.uk/page.asp?page=34

Nepal is a beautiful mountainous country where many famous rivers have their source. Despite this, clean water is in desperately short supply for most of the population. Last year, 13,000 children died as a result of illnesses caused by drinking unsafe water.
UNICEF is working with its partners to build and maintain more taps and clean water outlets in Nepal. A lack of clean water and sanitation facilities means that children are getting sick or even dying. In some cases, children are missing out on an education due to illness, which is the best chance they have of building a better life.
Soccer Aid raised funds which will help UNICEF and its partners to:
- provide five new water supply outlets in the Udayapur district that will serve over 650 people
- repair and improve of four water schemes serving over 850 people in the Dadeldhura district
- employ local maintenance workers to manage the operation of their water system
- install clean water supply outlets and there training and education for the communities and schools about sanitation and how to look after the water systems in place.

Here is the appeal that Orlando recorded last year supporting this project:

thanks to Ka-Bloom for the video