Why does WaterCan only work in eastern Africa?
Starting in the mid-1990s, WaterCan adopted an approach of focusing efforts in a few countries at a time in order to make the most effective use of its limited resources. Currently, WaterCan works in four countries in eastern Africa—Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda—all identified by the United Nations as among the poorest countries in the world. These countries all have a significant proportion of their population without access to safe water and proper sanitation, and all are lagging in meeting the Millennium Development Goal targets of halving the number of people without access to clean water and basic sanitation by 2015. The regional focus also provides the added benefit of more efficient and cost-effective program management.
