Over 2.5 million pupils in Ghana have no access to clean water. This means, quite a lot of these students get sick and cannot go to school. In Zabzigu in the Northern region, 15-year old Shafahatu Majed takes water home from school almost everyday.The borehole at school is the only safe source of drinking water for her family. Before the borehole’s construction last year, Shafahatu says it would take her about an hour to go to the riverside to fetch water everyday.“Sometimes by the time we would get to school it would be break time, my marks were very low then. I would sometimes get 30 percent on tests. Now with the borehole I can concentrate on school and I am doing well again.”Pupils like Shafahatu usually get their source of drinking water straight from the riverside, they would not treat the water which would sometimes make them sick.Headmaster of the school, Collins Norgbetsi says more than 60 percent of the students would not come to school then. He even became affected by guinea worm disease himself, from bad water.For Shafahatu it was not until UNICEF came to her school before she learned the importance of proper hand washing and purifying water.“As soon as I learned about it, I went home to tell my parents and now they also do same”Now, Shafahatu and some of her mates lead the health club at the Rajia EA JHS, teaching colleagues and sometimes residents of the community, the importance of good hygiene practices.Most of the other pupils at Shafahatu’s school, also bring containers to fetch water home after lessons because the water is safer.Two problems have been solved for this community in Zabzugu; the incidence of water borne diseases, and access to safe drinking water.But for many other Ghanaians these problems still exist.This is why UNICEF hopes to give over 62 thousand students like Shafahatu, in the Northern region access to safe water by 2016.