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Water is the fluid that gives us life. Without it we can die within 3 to 5 days, and that’s if we’re relatively healthy and living in a moderate climate. Over one billion people in our world don’t have ready access to clean, drinkable water everyday. Yes, that’s correct, over one billion people. Unsafe water kills 5,700 children a day.
Have you ever thought what it would be like if you didn’t have any water to drink? Many of us take for granted that we have clean water to drink and bathe in on a daily basis. What if you didn’t have access to fresh, clean water? What if your supply of water was cut off and you had to drink out of dirty ponds and irrigation ditches? Would you and your family be able to survive? How would you feel as a parent if your children were not able to drink anything but dirty, filthy water?
This is what millions of people deal with on a daily basis throughout third-world countries, yet in the industrialized world, we take for granted that water, our most vital fluid, comes out of the tap on demand. Access to clean water in these villages, towns, and remote areas, saves lives and can reduce a community’s child mortality rate by half. To give water is to give life.
We as small business owners can make a difference. Yes, it’s true, we can be part of the solution to bring clean water to millions of people. What can you do to make a difference? Would you like to be a part of the solution? Here are two ways that you can take action, make a difference, and impact people that don’t have access to clean water.
- Donate now to World Vision’s Water and Sanitation Fund. Your gift will help them dig deep wells for safe water access, provide purification equipment, distribute water storage containers, develop sanitation systems, and more.
- Provide Clean Water. See what a difference you can make!
- Sponsor a Child in Niger. Your love and support for a boy or girl in need will help provide essentials like clean water, a building block for a healthy, hopeful, and productive future.
World Vision and their teams of people are making an impact in villages across the globe. Clean water now comes true for villages where dirty water and disease were once the norm. Now, with deep wells and water pumps installed by World Vision, good health is common.
We hope that you will consider being part of a solution to bringing clean water to people who desperately need it. Make a difference and impact a community.