Type for Change

Today is World Water Day.
Probably, that means nothing to you.
It means a lot to someone though.
Actually, it means a lot to a lot of someones... about 1 billion people.
You have all heard the rundown from all the speakers at your schools, and the videos you've been sent.
But do you get it?
Let's paint a scenario here:

You wake up in the morning on the floor of your small home in India.

Today, you wanted to go to school, girls. 

But you can't.

The well in the village is broken again, you have to go somewhere else to find water.

There's not water to drink. Again. 

You can feel the scratchiness in your throat, and the ever invading thirst that has become reality. 

The baby is crying. 

Dehydrated. Again. 

You haven't showered in weeks. It's not even a thought that crosses your mind anymore.

You look outside to see the neighboring child pass by.

Naked. Dirty. 

Stomach protruding.

NO water. 

There is a well. 

It's just broken. No one knows how to fix it because someone from the outside built it. 

No one should have to live like this.

4000 children will die like this.

Today. 

But... someone does get it. The Adventure Project has begun a campaign to train women and men in their own villages to repair broken wells. Because 1/3 of all the drinking wells that we have built in the last 2 decades are broken. Hear that? We ARE doing something. We ARE building wells. And they are broken- probably a simple fix, like tightening a pump. But no one is equipped to do it... yet. Do you know how much money it takes to train these people to fix their wells?

$10,000. 

That's about a semester in American university to equip people to turn water back on for 300 people each month. That's 3600 a year. We are making progress... 

Help if you can. To take the Toms approach: one for one. Save one today. That's all. Save one naked, dirty, dehydrated, beautiful, valuable, incredible child from death by giving. www.TheAdventureProject.causevox.com