Thirst Project

Our mission is simple: Build a socially-conscious generation of young people who will END the global water crisis. We do this by educating students about the crisis and activating them to rock the clean water cause and build real water projects all over the world. Why Water? Health and sanitation: Waterborne diseases kill more children every single year than AIDS, Malaria, and all world violence combined. Small children typically do not have strong enough immune systems to fight diseases like cholera, dysentery, or schistosomiasis.

By providing a community with safe drinking water, disease rates can drop by up to 88% virtually overnight! Child mortality rates can drop up to 90% overnight! Clean water also plays an incredibly critical role in effectively treating and managing HIV/AIDS in rural communities.

Women and children spend on average six to eight hours each day walking to fetch water. The average distance that women and children in developing communities walk to fetch water is 3.75 miles. The time children spend collecting water keeps them from going to school and getting and education.

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