charity: water

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Hello my people's and today I would like to bring a pressing issue to matter.

The other day I was having lunch and I spoke with a friend about a non profit organization that he was volunteering to help out called charity: water. I was intrigued by the noble and pure forms of the organization which was one thing. . water. As an American I know all too well how easily I can take for granted the simple fact that I have fresh clean water on demand to drink, to clean, and to cook with  . . . and also how wasteful others can be with it. . . but as a Haitian American I also know how important clean drinking water is.

Right now Haiti has been hampered by an unfortunate mix of unstable governments and natural disasters for years now, from mudslides to earthquakes. More than a third of the country lacked access to safe water and that was BEFORE the quake struck the capitol Port-au-Prince in 2010. When it did, thousands fled to the countryside and water sources quickly became overstressed and contaminated.

Now, over 80% of rural Haitians lack direct access to sanitation facilities, and only 48% have access to an improved water source. Haiti will be rebuilding for years, and sustainable clean water access is crucial for their recovery. And this is just one country, one that just so happens to have much of my family there. 
   

  

Many counties like Nepal which just last year suffered a devastating earthquake, Guatemala, Honduras, Bolivia, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania and so many more lack clean drinking water for a large portions of their countries populations. One who is unaware might ask, How big a deal can clean water make anyway?


Clean water changes everything!!!!!

It grants HEALTH

Diseases from dirty water kill more people every year than all forms of violence, including war.

43% of those deaths are children under five years old. Access to clean water and basic sanitation can save around 16,000 lives every week.

It saves TIME

In Africa alone, women spend 40 billion hours a year walking for water.

Access to clean water gives communities more time to grow food, earn an income, and go to school -- all of which fight poverty.

It allows EDUCATION

Clean water helps keep kids in school, especially girls.

Less time collecting water means more time in class. Clean water and proper toilets at school means teenage girls don’t have to stay home for a week out of every month.

It helps WOMEN EMPOWERMENT

Women are responsible for 72% of the water collected in Sub-Saharan Africa.

When a community gets water, women and girls get their lives back. They start businesses, improve their homes, and take charge of their own futures.

These are just a few of many ways that water is so essential in countries less fortunate then our own.

Today I along with some friends and like minded individuals took part in a Gaming Live stream where we all helped to raise $10,000 to help build wells in many of the countries I mentioned. That was the minimum amount guaranteed to supply many villages wells that will last for at least a year!

As I had just recently payed off my monthly bills I was only able to donate 5 bucks of my own personal funds but then I asked my parents and my brother and his wife and that 5 turned to 25 donated . . . 25 dollars may not seem much to us but in some countries were people live on less the $1.25 a day that money meant the world to them. It meant a mother didn't have to choose to wash her children's clothes or water her garden of food. It meant a child could walk to school and stay there and not have to miss out on an education, it meant the entire world to someone somewhere. And I honestly . . . still felt helpless, how much more I wished I could do.

So I'm taking a stand on one issue out of the many that plague our world. I ask you, my watchers and friends, even if its just 1 measly dollar, to donate today to charity: water. 100% of its proceeds go toward Piped Systems, Rainwater Catchments, Latrines, Dried Wells, Water Purification Systems, and Biosand Filters, and so much more.

I ask you, my friends to help your fellow men, woman, and children have one small chance at a better life, and a chance to add light to our world so constantly besieged by darkness.

A glass of water is all I ask, I wish you all a good week, to all of you my friends :D (Here's the link) charitywater.org - Clean Water Changes Lives‎


  

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Axel230's avatar
This is one of the many reasons why I'm a huge supporter of the LifeStraw: access to clean water is important.

While on this matter, ever heard the story of the missioner on Africa and the fountain?