Vertical - Health

Lack of good food and potable water negatively affects health which in turn reduces productivity of people,leading to a financial drain on the local economy. Poor sanitation also reduces peoples ability to keep disease at bay. When working solely towards survival, the environment takes a back seat in people’s thinking, meaning that they take what they most easily can from the land, often reducing it to dust and desert which in turn affects the ecology, food, health and economy.

  • Potable Drinking Water (WHO Level); cholera, typhoid etc.
  • Inadequate Nutritious Food; obesity, malnutrition, diabetes etc.
  • Mosquito and  pest control; dengue, malaria.
  • Lack of Scaleable Waste Water Treatment.Lack; contamination of water table and water sources.


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“IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA, ONLY 24% OF THE POPULATION HAVE ACCESS TO SAFE DRINKING WATER,AND 28% HAVE BASIC SANITATION FACILITIES THAT ARE NOT SHARED WITH OTHER HOUSEHOLDS.”


UN WATER DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2019

“A profound shift from communicable to non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is under way in many parts of the African Region. Globally, NCDs are estimated to kill 38 million people each year and they threaten progress towards the UN Millennium Development Goals and influence the post-2015 development agenda. The four main types of NCDs are cardiovascular diseases (like heart attacks and stroke), cancers, chronic respiratory diseases (such as chronic obstructed pulmonary disease and asthma) and diabetes. The trend towards a unhealthy diet rich in saturated fat, sugar and salt and poor in fruit and vegetables means that children in sub-Saharan Africa are overweight but malnourished because they are receiving more than enough calories but not enough necessary nutrients to grow into healthy adults.

Malnutrition – including under-nutrition and nutritional deficiencies – are still major causes of death and disease, especially among vulnerable and socially disadvantaged people like women and children less than five years of age.”

World Health Organisation (WHO)

“IN 2021, AFRICA WAS HOME TO 95% OF MALARIA CASES AND 96% OF MALARIA DEATHS. CHILDREN UNDER 5ACCOUNTED FOR ABOUT 80% OF ALL MALARIA DEATHS IN THE REGION.”

WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION

Some of the components that that AoteA is utilising to aid Health Security"

  • Aotea Eco Pumps (fuel/power free 24/7 water delivery to convenient points). for irrigation or domestic use
  • Water Purification Products; limited or no chemicals or power (situation dependant).
  • Food security improves physical & mental health.
  • AoteA Mosquito Traps control malaria, dengue fever.
  • Scaleable natural waste water treatment using controlled reed/water hyacinth beds.

Lack of Health Security directly affects:

Ecology

  • Poor health practices results in people being more lethargic and weaker who thus take little care of their environment.

Economy

  • An ailing and sickly population reduces economic input and productivity; people will struggle just to grow their own food rather than to contribute.
  • Additional burden on social services and healthcare.
  • Diverts foreign aid from economic improvement into fire-fighting health issues.

Food Security

  • If a farmer is sick then he is unable to plant as many and care properly for crops, leading to further malnutrition.
  • Water is more likely to sourced within easy to reach carrying distances, generally close to the house and middens.

AoteA Programmes that directly improve Health Security:

Rural Revitalisation

Everything starts with providing water to villages and unused land to increase food and health security, as well as cash crops. .

Interconnected Business Revitalisation

Each programme provides raw materials which can be utilised by local industries to provide products for those programmes to consume but also cash products for export; all programmes are inter0related and supportive of each other ensuring cash flow and exports.