According to the United Nations, more than 663 million people do not have a safe water supply close to home, spending long hours trekking to distant sources and coping with the negative health impacts of using contaminated water.
World Water Day, March 22, serves as a reminder that water is fundamental to our very existence.
No one among us knows this better than families in countries like Ethiopia, where access to clean water is a major issue in the southern region of the country.
World Water Day means something different to people depending on where they live.
It is likely that no mother, father, or child living in a rural village in southern Ethiopia is concerned with World Water Day or its promotion. Their concern is centered around the question of whether they will have water today, and if they do, will it make them sick again.
Our concern, at HOPE International Development Agency, is the same as theirs. Clean water is a crucial part of lifting families out of poverty. Every family needs clean water.
The best way to ensure that World Water Day is not just another day in a calendar full of “awareness days" is to give a gift that helps bring clean water, for life, to families in rural villages throughout southern Ethiopia.
Celebrate the fact that you have clean water, in abundant supply, by giving the same to a family that does not have clean water.
GIVE CLEAN WATER TODAY
