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Matt Damon co-founded Water.org in 2009 to provide access to safe water and sanitation for the 2.6 billion people worldwide who lack clean sanitation and the 1 in 9 people who lack access to safe water. Moina is a 21-year-old woman from the Board Guard slum in Dhaka, Bangladesh, home to 4 million people, who has to travel long distances twice a day to collect contaminated water for her family. She and her family have suffered from water-related illnesses. Moina is now working with other residents in the slum who have formed a community group and applied for a loan through Water.org to build a well and latrine so they

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Water Aid

Matt Damon co-founded Water.org in 2009 to provide access to safe water and sanitation for the 2.6 billion people worldwide who lack clean sanitation and the 1 in 9 people who lack access to safe water. Moina is a 21-year-old woman from the Board Guard slum in Dhaka, Bangladesh, home to 4 million people, who has to travel long distances twice a day to collect contaminated water for her family. She and her family have suffered from water-related illnesses. Moina is now working with other residents in the slum who have formed a community group and applied for a loan through Water.org to build a well and latrine so they

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Read the text below and answer the questions that follow by writing THE LETTER OF THE CORRECT

ANSWER (a, b or c) in the corresponding


space.

A world without clean water

Hollywood actor, Matt Damon is world famous for his box-office hits such as the Bourne films but he is also a well-known humanitarian. Back in 2009, he co-
founded Water.org, a non-profit organisation that provides the developing world with access to safe water and sanitation. Its aim still remains the same: to assist
the 2.6 billion people worldwide that lack clean sanitation and the 1 in 9 people who lack access to safe water, many of whom live in rural areas. To put it into
perspective, that’s more than two and a half times the population of the USA.

As Matt explains, ‘Over 4,000 children in the developing world die from water-related diseases every day. After visiting project sites in Africa and Asia, I’ve seen
the problem and the impact of safe water and in this day and age it’s totally unnecessary that people die from a lack of clean water.’

Twenty-one-year-old Moina is one of the many thousands of people that Water.org has been helping over the years. Working as a housemaid, she lives in Board
Guard slum in Dhaka, Bangladesh, with her husband and eight-month-old daughter, along with four million other people. Her husband is a rickshaw puller. As
the slum has no access to safe water, Moina has to get her family’s drinking water from
a public source about a mile away. They have to pay $1.45 a month to use it. It’s not unusual for the water to run out before everyone in the queue has been able
to fill their pots. She collects water twice
a day and each trip takes her from one to two hours.

Moina uses a nearby pond for all other daily water needs, like bathing and washing clothes. The pond is contaminated by human and animal waste, as well as
pollution. There are no sanitary toilets in Board Guard, only ‘hanging latrines’, which are basically sheets of cloth hung on bamboo poles for privacy.

Moina and her family have suffered from water-related illnesses, such as diarrhoea and jaundice, as well as various skin diseases. She is a young woman with
tremendous energy and spirit, and is now working with other Board Guard residents who have formed a community-based organisation and applied for a small
loan through Water.org to build a well and latrine. Moina’s dream is to have access to clean water right by her home.

1. Water.org was created to [1].


a) help people in urban areas
b) make money to buy clean water
c) help people lacking safe water
2. [2] don’t have clean sanitation globally.
a) 2.9 billion people
b) Over 2.5 times the U.S. population
c) 4,000 people
3. Matt [3] work in Africa and Asia.
a) has seen 4,000 clean water projects
b) has seen for himself how clean water projects
c) has plans to see how clean water projects
4. The Board Guard slum [4].
a) is home to 4 million inhabitants
b) is where Moina lives with her parents
c) is one place water aid has yet to reach
5. Moina is now [5] a community group.
a) looking to set up
b) working with other residents in
c) accessing clean water through

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