intent
Water.org's vision is a world in which everyone can have a safe drink of water. Sounds simple enough, but in reality close to one billion people in the world lack access to clean water and over 2.5 billion do not have improved sanitation. Millions of women and children around the world travel for hours to collect water from faraway and often polluted sources. Despite efforts to retrieve safe water, a child dies from a water-related disease every 15 seconds. Water.org works with communities in Africa, Central America, and Asia to...
Local Partners/Community Involvement
Technology/Education
Funding
Water.org's WaterCredit initiative differentiates itself from charity by directly giving the necessary resources to the poor, ultimatley empowering them to...
water.org background
In 2009, H2O Africa, an organization founded by actor and activist, Matt Damon, merged with Gary White's WaterPartners to create water.org.
highlights
- WaterCredit
what you can do
- Donate your Twitter Status to water.org.
- Help out by fundraising...
***Tonic*** http://www.tonic.com/article/matt-damons-commitment-to-bill-clinton/ (2009)
