Adopt a Village: Clean Water and Sanitation

Imagine if getting a drink of water wasn’t as simple as turning on your tap. Imagine you had to trek miles to a dirty river or polluted well and lug 40-pound jerry cans back to your family. Imagine you did this every day, a job so tedious yet crucial that it was essentially all you did. Imagine you were 12 years old.

Clean water isn’t a luxury, it’s a basic human right. But millions of people around the world don’t live near a reliable, clean water source, or have access to sanitary washing facilities, leaving them at risk of illness and deadly disease. Improving access to clean water is one of the most crucial and quickest ways to lift a community out of poverty. It reduces illness, allows girls to go to school (girls are generally tasked with retrieving the family’s water) and leads to better agriculture and access to food.