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1. Dakarai Ebele 2. Representing Zimbabwe
 * 15 year old who suffers from Typhoid Fever, a waterborne disease, because of unsanitized drinking water.
 * Typhoid Fever- serious infection marked by intestinal inflammation and ulceration; caused by Salmonella typhoon ingested with food or water.
 * Population
 * Zimbabwe has a population of 12,619,600 people since the year 2012
 * Zimbabwe’s growth rate is 4.357%, the 2nd fastest growing population in the world. This will cause a major problem because their water is polluted with chemicals, toxins, and many more harmful threats. Because there is so much people there will be a limited amount of people who can have clean water, while the rest of the population have to drink unsanitized water which can give them hepatitis A and Typhoid Fever, waterborne diseases.
 * Mortality Rate can be up to 20%, this percentage will rise even higher because Clean water is not available for the people of Zimbabwe and they already have little water, but now they are contaminated as well.


 * Climate- Landlocked and is close to the equator which makes it really hot.

3. Occupation and background information.  Dakarai Ebele lives with his mom, who sells tools off the side of a street on a stand. Dakarai went to school only up to grade 7 and had to drop out because his father died that year, from Typhoid Fever, and they did not have the money to keep Dakarai in school. Now Dakarai is working with his mom, he goes around and looks for tools that were left behind by previous owners. Sadly Dakarai suffers from Typhoid Fever as well because they did not have to proper amount of money to buy purified water, so as Dakarai looks for things to sell he also looks for water that he can drink. Soon he got Typhoid fever from drinking water from a little stream he found near an abandoned mining ground.
 * Droughts prevent people from farming agriculture and prevents people from having food to take care of their family and receiving money for clean water
 * There are many rivers and most of them could obtain infectious diseases
 * Social Structure
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Zimbabwe has the highest literacy rate in Africa, over 90%.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Better educated than the average African, which makes them a valuable asset. Since they’re such valuable assets shouldn’t we do something about the pollution of water that causes waterborne diseases such as Typhoid Fever?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Economy
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">80% of people are unemployed. People can’t afford purified water because it costs money, so they have to drink rain water, water from wells, rivers, streams. All these sources could have been contaminated.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Money was drained from the war of 98-02 with the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Hundreds of Millions of dollars were drained.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Hyperinflation has been a big problem from 2003 to April 2009, they had to suspend their own currency
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The land has any minerals that can be mined but they don’t have to money to do it themselves.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">68% of the people are under the poverty line, because they are so poor they can’t afford education so they can’t tell if the water they are about to drink well kill them or not. They have to take the risk because they have no other choice.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4. References
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The UN Children’s Fund is a non-profit organization that supports the people of Zimbabwe who suffers from waterborne diseases such as Hepatitis A. They also raise try to prevent these waterborne disease by supplying sanitized water for the people and try to purify the local water sources that are close to large communities.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Abel Chikom is someone from a civic organization, protest bad drinking water, said “We cannot wait a day longer. Waiting a day longer might mean losing 1,000 lives. Human rights activists act and we can act now,”
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Water Partners International is getting involved with protecting the people of Africa from waterborne diseases after they realized that this problem has to stop or thousands of people are going to continue to die everyday.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">5. Four Benchmarks
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Safety and Rule of Law
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Zimbabwe may be the 2nd fastest growing country but it will soon be the other way around. Zimbabwe has very scarce clean water, even though Zimbabwe have many rivers running through the country many of those rivers are contaminated with chemical toxins. This causes a safety hazard to the people of Zimbabwe because since 80% of Zimbabweans are in poverty they can’t afford clean water, and their government won’t provide them purification substances. This forces the people to drink out of rivers, streams, wells, etc. Many of these sources could contain bacteria that can cause Hepatitis A, Hepatitis E, and Typhoid Fever, but the people have no choice.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Participation and Human Rights
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">There are many organizations from other countries trying to help people in Zimbabwe from getting a waterborne disease such as the UN Children’s Fund and Water Partners International. People are born with 3 permanent rights, the right to own property, the right of liberty, and the right to pursuit happiness. But yet people are dying everyday losing their loved ones from waterborne diseases. People can’t pursue happiness when their loved ones are dying everyday, when they have no bright future to look forward too. But the Government of Zimbabwe are partnering with many organizations to help the people of Zimbabwe from waterborne diseases. One way they are doing this is by educating people about the symptoms of waterborne diseases such as Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, Cholera, and Typhoid Fever. Also the people who are suffering from any of these disease are being treated with medical care the best they can provide.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sustainable Economic Opportunity
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Zimbabwe’s government is trying to make water availability more common to the people but the concern of the water having a waterborne disease is a major factor in spreading water. If the water isn’t clean then the government could infect any people without even knowing what they have done. The government is a republican government so they are allowed to run for congress.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Human Development
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Because waterborne disease is so big in Zimbabwe it may bring people together to make peace treaties between tribes to agree to look for clean water sources, but this may also split families and friends apart. Thousands of people die every year because of a waterborne related disease, people are aware that this a major problem but yet people just stand around and watch as Zimbabweans die day by day because of Typhoid Fever or Hepatitis A. Though they may have access to water, they do not have access to clean water.

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