$175
MONEY RAISED
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Anonymous
$25
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Lara Hechtkopf
$25
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Keyser Söze
$25
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Steve Baumbach
$25
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CrowdRise
$25
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Jeanette Lagda
$25
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Anonymous
$25
JD Miller's Fundraiser:
Clean, Safe, Water for all via water.org
BENEFITING: Water.org
EVENT: Groupon Earth Day Challenge
THE STORY:
I am raising money to benefit www.water.org
This is a tax-deduction just waiting for you! You will receive a receipt after you donate.
A Common Struggle
In most developed nations, we take access to safe water for granted. But this wasn’t always the case. A little more than 100 years ago, New York, London and Paris were centers of infectious disease. Child death rates were as high then as they are now in much of Sub-Saharan Africa. It was sweeping reforms in water and sanitation that enabled human progress to leap forward. It should come as no surprise that in 2007, a poll by the British Medical Journal found that clean water and sanitation comprised the most important medical advancement since 1840.
The health and economic impacts of today’s global water crisis are staggering.
- More than 3.5 million people die each year from water-related disease; 84 percent are children. Nearly all deaths, 98 percent, occur in the developing world.
- Lack of access to clean water and sanitation kills children at a rate equivalent of a jumbo jet crashing every four hours.
- Lack of sanitation is the world’s biggest cause of infection.
- Millions of women and children spend several hours each day collecting water from distant, often polluted sources. This is time not spent working at an income-generating job, caring for family members, or attending school.
- 443 million school days are lost each year due to water-related illness.
The Good News
water.org knows how to bring people clean water and improved sanitation. They’re not waiting for a magic cure. And the solutions are simple and cost-effective. On average, every US dollar invested in water and sanitation provides an economic return of eight US dollars. For only $25, Water.org can bring someone access to clean water for life.
The excerpt above was copied from www.water.org 's website to explain the charity and its goal. Please help me to help water.org to change the world.
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