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Hydrate Hope
is
the first global project of
I Am
Change that began out of asking the question, “with so
many needs in the world, where can we begin to make a
difference”. Our answer…start with the biggest. With water being
the #1 killer in the world, our passion is to engage this
preventable global atrocity head on. Over 1.1 Billion people in
our world have no access to clean water. That's basically 1 out
of every 6 people on our planet. More than 2 million people,
mostly children, die each year from preventable waterborne
illnesses. 2.6 Billion people are without basic sanitation. Many
women and children walk over than 2 hours each way to often
fetch more than 40lbs of dirty water for their families. This
creates an absence of time and energy necessary for education or
small business. The heartbreaker...4 children die every
minute...that means that every 15 seconds another child
dies....we want this to change. This has to change!
We
dream of seeing millions of lives changed by providing access to
clean water, adequate sanitation and hygiene education.
HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other life-threatening diseases will look
radically different as clean water becomes available to help
build healthy immune systems. Poverty will begin to change as
people can devote less time and energy to transporting water and
more time to strengthen micro-enterprise. Education will look
different as children, primarily girls, will spend less time
trekking to distant, unclean water sources and more time in
school.
Whether we are digging new wells or repairing old wells,
Hydrate Hope is not only striving to prevent the daily loss
of more than 25,000 precious lives through providing access to
clean water, but to enhance life around the world. Water brings
life. Water is hope. Water changes everything.
Join
us in bringing hope to the lives of those who really need
it!
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