The Story and Mission

So on the first day of class we watched the video below.



It felt like stepping through a doorway.

On the other side we discovered a world within our world.

Made up of over a billion people who don't have access to clean drinking water.

Stop and think about that.

That's 1 out of every 6 people on the planet.

We also learned other disturbing things.

Like the fact that every 15 seconds another person dies of a water-related disease.

1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10...11...12...13...14...15.

Another completely preventable H2O tragedy.

That equals about 4,500 deaths a day.

90% of those fatalities are children.

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And then there are schools.

Like ours.

50% of them are without water in developing countries.

That means that for every other little girl or boy

they go thirsty all day in school.

Imagine what it would have been like if after recess,

after hanging on the monkeybars,

and chasing your classmate in a game of duck-duck-goose,

that there was no water to quench your thirst.

That reality just doesn't seem possible.

And yet it is.

What's worse is that often girls age 12 and above have to leave school

and walk 3 hours a day to fetch water for their families.

Every year girls miss over 400 million hours of school

just to fetch water.

It's ironic, really.

We ask our teachers for a drink to get out of class.

H2O is our free ticket out of learning.

But for girls in many parts of Africa, the lack of water forces them out.

When they would rather be in the classroom.

Reading. Writing. Drawing. Counting.

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Just think then what safe, clean water will do.

For children. For girls. For schools. For villages. For countries.

That's what we've been doing A LOT lately.

Thinking. And wondering. And imagining. And dreaming.

And asking the question, What if.

Now we're ready to ACT.

To take our learning from the classroom into the community.

We want to tackle a global problem,

in a local way,

through a simple solution.

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So here's the skinny.

In partnership with charity: water, our goal is to raise $20,000 to cover the comprehensive water cost for a new well, new bathroom facilities, and new hygiene resources for one African school.

That's $20K for 1,000 students to have safe, clean water.

All donations go to charity: water, are tax-deductible,

and 100% goes directly to water solutions.

Which will provide boys and girls the equal opportunity to attend school.

Making it possible to break the cycle of poverty,

and making it possible to dream of a new kind of future.

One with real hope.

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To accomplish our mission- we need your passion, courage, and innovation.

Consider this your summoning.

To get educated.

To get creative.

To get involved.

Become a part of the H2OPE solution.

And help us eliminate extreme poverty for one school in Africa.