As
@WorldBankGroup Spring Meetings get underway this week, conversations will centre on growth, jobs, and productivity. Yet for millions of children, the reality is far more fundamental: they are too sick to learn, too busy fetching water to attend school, or forced to drop out altogether.
These are not just water challenges. They are human capital challenges.
And the implications are systemic. When water is missing, education systems underperform, health systems are overstretched, and productivity is constrained before it even begins. But the reverse is also true. When clean water is within reach, everything changes. Children stay in school. Health improves. Time is restored. Potential is unlocked.
In her latest piece, Parvin Ngala, World VisionтАЩs Global WASH Director, calls for a reset: we are investing in outcomes while overlooking the foundations that make them possible.
546 million children attend schools without water. Nearly 1,000 young children die every day from preventable WASH-related diseases.
This is not just a water issue. ItтАЩs a human capital issue.
If we want different results, we need a different starting point.
Water comes first.
Read the full piece and rethink where investment should begin.
ЁЯСЙ Prioritising Water to Unlock Human Capital
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