What would you do for clean water? For over 700 million people living without it, the answer is anything. And they do: they walk miles every day, in treacherous conditions and extreme heat, just to access water that makes them sick or worse.

Currently, nearly 1 in 10 people worldwide live without access to clean water. (That's down from 785 million. Fifteen years ago, it was more than 1 billion!) Around the world, men, women and children still need access to safe, clean water. This negatively impacts their health, keeps children from attending school, disproportionately impacts females, and traps millions of people in a cycle of poverty. However, this all changes when solutions to access safe water are implemented. We’ve made amazing progress as a global community, but we still have plenty of important work to do together.

For more information:
https://www.charitywater.org/stories/the-numbers-are-improving
https://www.charitywater.org/stories/women-and-water

For our twentieth water campaign, we are focusing on the current World Water Day theme: Water for Peace. When we cooperate on water, we create a positive ripple effect – fostering harmony, generating prosperity and building resilience to shared challenges. We all need to unite around water and use water for peace, laying the foundations for a more stable and prosperous tomorrow.

Water can create peace or spark conflict. We must act upon the realization that water is not only a resource to be used and competed over – it is a human right, intrinsic to every aspect of life.

Since 2014, we’ve created Second Life fundraisers through charity: water because we believe safe water is necessary for life. Whoever you are, wherever you are, water is a basic human right. We feel so strongly that we donate all proceeds from Second Chance activities to provide clean water to those in need.

Periodically, depending on the campaign, we contribute all funds to charity: water, which provides aid to water projects all over the world. You will even be able to track the project(s) that you have supported.

Our past SL campaigns have raised over $7,000USD (or more than L$1.7m). All of these funds were donated to water projects in Cambodia, Kenya, Ethiopia, Malawi, Uganda, Niger, Mali, Mozambique, Madagascar, Burkina Faso and Sierra Leone. Completed projects have impacted almost 3,500 people. Our virtual fund-raising is having a tangible impact on real people!

We know there are lots of worthy charities out there, but the water crisis is something we can help solve. We hope you agree and show your support for our current campaign. For every $40 (about L$9,500) that we raise, charity: water can give someone access to safe water for years to come. Their past contributions have funded over 138,000 projects that have impacted almost 17.5 million people in 29 countries.

Together, we can change lives through something as basic as water because CLEAN WATER CHANGES EVERYTHING!

Check out some of charity: water's completed projects:
https://www.charitywater.org/our-work

Here are some talking points about the water crisis:
https://www.charitywater.org/global-water-crisis

Projects we have helped fund:
https://www.charitywater.org/denise-infinity#impact

Denise Infinity, Friends &
Crusaders of Clean Water @ Second Life
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