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Water
It’s life’s most basic need
But there’s a water crisis in our world right now
Seriously... A crisis
Nearly one billion people live without clean drinking water
It’s happening all over the world
Especially in developing areas of Sub Saharan Africa,
South East Asia and Latin America
It's a water crisis, because it starts with water..
But water affects EVERYTHING:
Education....
Health....
Poverty....
And especially women and children.
Lets look at a family caught in the water crisis.
It’s likely they live on less than a dollar a day....
When they’re thirsty, they cant just turn on the faucet
for a nice cold glass of water..
They don't have a faucet...
Instead the women and children go off to collect water...
Many walk up to 3 hours a day to the nearest swamp, pond or river
to gather water that has been sitting out in the open...
Exposed to all kinds of germs..
Time spent gathering water is time they cant spend ..
learning to read.... write....
earn an income or take care of their family.
Some women in sub Saharan Africa spend more time collecting water
than any other activity they do in the day...
And the walk isn’t just hard.... it’s dangerous...
The women are alone and burdened with 40lb (18kg) of water
Many get hurt, sometimes they’re even attacked...
When they make it home,
the little water they’ve collected isn’t clean.
Some families know their water is contaminated with germs that cause
diarrhea,
dehydration,
even death..
But what choice do they have?
Kids... especially babies, are affected most by these germs.
About every 19 seconds
a mother loses one of her children to a water related illness.
And each day,
almost a Billion people are living this way...
Until... They get a little help...
The water crisis IS solvable
There are solutions
Some are brand new and innovative like water filtration systems,
Some are age old like drilled or hand dug wells.
These solutions bring clean water much closer to the people who need it
A safe water project near a village
restores hours each day to a person’s life.
This time, its opportunity, its freedom
to go to school and get an education,
to work or start a business,
to raise a family.
Africa alone could save 40 billion hours each year.
That's the entire annual workforce of France.
Clean water means less disease.
Thats less money spent on medicine
Which means more money for books and school uniforms.
And if the water project is built near a school...
it can increase attendance.. especially among young girls..
The water crisis is vast.. but we can solve it.
Just $20 can provide one person
with access to a clean water project in their village..
And this will mean more than clean water....
Because water changes everything
Join us.