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Water: ‘Biggest Crisis No One Is Talking About’

March 25, 2021

New report for World Water Day, March 22, says two-thirds of planet may face shortages by 2025.

Citing global forecasts, a recent report by GFA World suggests the toxic mix of poverty, hunger and lack of safe drinking water around the world could be “potentially much more worrying than the virus spreading.”

“Two-thirds of the world’s people could face water shortages by 2025,” said K.P. Yohannan, founder of GFA World that has currently clean water projects across Asia. “It’s been described as ‘the biggest crisis no one is talking about’.”

Several mega cities are on the verge of “running out of drinking water,” says the report, …

Global Toilet Crisis Kills More Than COVID-19

Dec. 18, 2020

More people will die from diseases linked to lack of toilets and poor sanitation than from COVID-19 this year.

'Forgotten Christmas' Showers Life-changing Gifts on World's Poor

Dec. 2, 2020

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Nov. 13, 2020

GFA Helps 70,000 Families Defy Covid-19 Starvation

Oct. 30, 2020

With the number of Covid-19 cases in India surging past eight million and climbing rapidly, ongoing hunger relief efforts continue to stave off starvation acro…

650 Million Child Brides

Oct. 16, 2020

As women’s rights take centre stage in North America and many parts of the world, the reality for millions of girls worldwide is sexual exploitation and forced…

Millions of Widows in ‘Crisis of Survival’

Sept. 25, 2020

GFA World spotlights the huge “uphill battle” facing many of the world’s 258 million widows in a just-released report. Treatment of widows is often startlingly…

Prayer as a Lifestyle

Sept. 8, 2020

As followers of Christ, prayer is foundational to our spiritual journey and yet it can be so easy to push it aside amid the distractions and busyness of the wo…

Jesus Wells Spring Hope in Thirstiest Continent

Aug. 20, 2020

GFA World has revealed it has provided safe drinking water for a staggering 37.5 million people in Asia, the world’s “thirstiest” continent.