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Water for Life

Safe water for life

WaterAid America

Regular price $25.00

Your $25 donation enables WaterAid to provide one person with clean safe water, sanitation and hygiene education in one of the 26 countries where we work. This gift is enough to pay for one person in one of the world's poorest countries to gain access to safe, clean water and sanitation for life.


Lunch for Slum Kids

Lunch for Slum Kids

African Children's Haven

Regular price $1.00

This gift will provide a needy child in the Mathare slum in Nairobi, Kenya with a healthy lunch, five days a week for a month. Younger children will also receive a nutritious mid-morning snack. Food is a precious commodity for Kenya's poor and is especially important to young children who are especially vulnerable to malnutrition and disease. The St. Phillips School lunch program addresses this...


Provide Safe Water

Safe drinking water

Water for People

Regular price $40.00

This gift will provide a sustainable, safe water supply for one person in the developing world. It might be a child who will no longer be sick and can go to school. Or a woman who will no longer have spend hours every day hauling water for her family. Your gift will provide safe water for years to come and new hope for the future....


The gift of Water

Clean water for Africa

Africare

Regular price $50.00

Africare works throughout Africa to address the lack of clean, safe water sources by helping communities construct water wells and other water systems. Africare works with communities to design, build and construct various types of water wells. Working together, the community learns how to maintain and take care of the well after Africare staff depart. Africare also discusses with communities strategies for disposing of water...


Support Clean Water

Clay water pot

Arzu Inc

Regular price $10.00

Purchasing a clay water pot for Arzu's water filtration system ensures the ongoing effort to provide clean water to rural communities in Afghanistan. This simple donation will allow women and their families clean water for drinking and cooking - promoting Arzu's commitment to improve the health of individuals in Afghanistan.


Promote Sanitation

Latrine for 10 people

American Refugee Committee

Regular price $30.00

Life-saving work is rarely glamorous. But, a latrine and training in how to maintain it can protect a large family from the threat of disease. Yours will be the most interesting and intriguing gift your loved one receives. And it will save the most lives.


Lend A Hand

One handpump

WaterAid America

Regular price $100.00

For families in developing countries, drawing water up through the gift of a new handpump protects the water so it is clean and safe to drink and cook with.


Build A Tap Stand

Water for a family

Water for People

Regular price $100.00

Your gift of a water tap stand will provide safe water to a family close to home and give a woman the freedom to pursue other, more productive activities. Instead of hauling water, she can care for her family and perhaps contribute to her family's income. Her children won't be as sick and she can spend her limited income on food, education for her children...


Bring Clean Water

The Gift of the Magi

African Medical and Research Foundation

Regular price $25.00

A gift of $25 will provide clean water to an African family for one month. Your donation will truly be a "gift of the magi." With your contribution, AMREF will work to reduce the prevalence of water and sanitation related diseases that needlessly kill African families -- and improve their general hygiene. How? We will work with community water committees to build shallow wells, boreholes...


Water Maize

Irrigation system

Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa

Regular price $100.00

Your donation will be used to help farmers harvest water that is available to them. A simple irrigation system connecting their farms to major rivers is enough to double their productivity. This gift will be used to improve the knowledge to maintain water catchment areas, where water is stored during heavy rain and used at a later stage to irrigate farmer’s fields. Your gift will...


Water for Students

Help Dig a Well

The Water Project, Inc.

Regular price $10.00

$10 provides one student water for up to 10 years This gift will be used entirely to fund the construction of a well a school in Kenya. Each well will serve over 400 students and their communities. With proper access to water, these students can get back to work preparing for a future full of hope. Their communities will develop quickly as they break the...


Provide Water

One month for a family

Global Rainwater Harvesting Collective

Regular price $250.00

Rainwater harvesting systems with a capacity of 100,000 liters are enough to meet water and sanitations needs for 500 school children for 6 months. Your gift of $250 will provide clean drinking water to one family for more than one month, will help reach the total cost of $10,000 for such a storage system, and will provide trucked water supply during times of drought or...


Ensure Water for Life

Clean water access

ActionAid International USA

Regular price $50.00

Your kind gift will help individuals claim their right to clean water by building sustainable and safe water supplies, encouraging local residents to maintain them, and holding educational campaigns on sanitation and health within some of Afghanistan’s most remote regions.


Build A Well

Give 20 Years of Water

The Water Project, Inc.

Regular price $20.00

$20 provides one student with water for their entire childhood This gift will be used entirely to fund the construction of wells at schools in Kenya. Each well will serve over 400 students and their communities. With proper access to water, these students can get back to work preparing for a future full of hope. Their communities will develop quickly as they break the cycle...


Regular price $0.00

$100 helps provide a toilet or water connection for 8 families in a developing country. Healthier children are able to attend school. Healthy adults are able to work and provide for their family. Water.org works with local finance institutions to offer affordable loans for water and sanitation, putting the tools to solve the water crisis in the hands of the people who need them.


Regular price $0.00

A $60 donation helps provide safe water for one family in a developing country. Water.org empowers people by helping them access small, affordable loans that enable them to install household water connections and toilets. When a family can afford a small loan to purchase their own water and sanitation resources, they are empowered to solve their water crisis.


Toilet and Water Connections

Gives safe sanitation for 8 families

Water.org

Regular price $100.00

$100 helps provide a toilet or water connection for 8 families in a developing country. Healthier children are able to attend school. Healthy adults are able to work and provide for their family. Water.org works with local finance institutions to offer affordable loans for water and sanitation, putting the tools to solve the water crisis in the hands of the people who need them.


Support Clean Water

Water for a family

International Medical Corps

Regular price $25.00

Your gift helps IMC to provide a clean supply of water for drinking, cooking, and hygiene. Through a simple, gradual overnight process, water filtration units can transform even highly polluted water into safe drinking water that meets World Health Organization standards.


Save A Family

One relief kit

Catholic Relief Services-USCCB

Regular price $40.00

As you might imagine, the most pressing needs are safe (and dry) shelter, food, and clean water. Many water pumps are submerged and wells are polluted. An emergency kit, which costs CRS only $40 to provide per family, contains vital relief supplies, including tarps, water purifiers, kitchen sets, buckets, and 10-day rations of high-protein food. We've been able to reach 70,000 families across the region...


Safe, Clean Water

Water for a family

Plan International USA

Regular price $75.00

A lot of elements go into making one big happy family. But along with the love and laughter you need the basic necessities: food, shelter, clothing, and of course a reliable supply of clean water. Your gift keeps the water – and love – flowing and you’ll feel good knowing you’re nurturing stronger, healthier family bonds that will last a lifetime.