Charity Water

In the last post there was an embedded video that explained the concept of walking distances to retrieve water. This video was related to an organization called Charity Water. Charity Water is a nonprofit organization located in New York. Their main concern is to bring clean water to places that do not have it. There are over 800 million people that go without clean drinking water on a daily basis. This is outrageous to think about when you consider how easy it is for us as Americans to literally walk to a faucet and have water dispensed at our disposal. To continue, Charity Water is not just building the wells, but they also like to make sure that people are actually well educated on the issue of clean water sources as well as the importance of water in a person's life. Charity Water's most attractive thing is the fact that they have promised the world that whatever money is donated to the charity will go directly towards funding in the field projects. This is great because many people when donating to a nonprofit organization do not truly know just how much of their money is actually going towards the cause at hand. In order for this goal of giving all the money towards the cause, Charity Water must rely on business people and philanthropists alike in order to make sure that their organization stays afloat. You might be wondering just who is the mastermind behind such a great organization. His name is Scott Harrison. Charity Water is currently hiring as well as looking for interns.

A video from Charity Water

In my last post I discussed the ordeal that women and children must go through in order to bring water back to their village. While doing some more research and reading up on different non profit organizations I stumbled upon Charity Water from New York and a video they have released on this very ordeal. I think this video does a fantastic job through animation in order to make the point come across loud and clear, but in the same regard in a harsh manner that makes it too graphic for someone of a younger era. I was already passionate about building wells in poverty stricken areas, but this video just increased the amount of fire burning deep inside my soul.

The reason for The Water Fountain

Living in America we often times never take a moment to think about people in foreign countries. One issue that has become aware to me in the last ten years is water. Sure, it makes up most of the content of our bodies. However, that's not what I am concerned with in the least bit.

Over the course of this blog I will discuss what is going on in the realm of building wells in poverty stricken areas. This is an issue that needs to be addressed and addressed soon.

Building wells in Africa in particular has weighed heavily on my heart since I would say around freshman year of high school. I can remember sitting at a church summer camp down in Panama City, and being awe struck to see that there were kids my age carrying up to twenty pounds of water for courses of two to three miles.

This process that I was being shown is certainly no walk in the park. Children and women must walk miles on end to a watering hole where they will then fill up their water jugs in order to provide clean water for their families. From here most will then put the jug of water on top of their head and walk back miles in order to reach their village.

Needless to say this tugged at my heart strings quite a bit. This blog is entitled the water fountain from the standpoint that the watering hole for most villages is a place for gossip, catching up, as well as just plain old community. Here in America we don't have to worry about walking to a watering hole to receive clean water, but instead just walk to a water fountain that is most times yards if not feet away from us.

I hope this blog serves well to whoever is reading it, and hopefully this will ignite a spark under some of your feet to go out and make a difference for a village in need.