Who are We, and What Inspired this Project?

We are students who attend Lansing Christian School. In our sophomore year, we participate in something we call “The Water Project”, led by our biology teacher, Ms Joos. 

In our current unit we are learning about microorganisms and viruses, especially within water. This brought light to the global water crisis. Rather than taking assessments on this topic, we decided we wanted to make an impact and contribute to the solution, leading us to partner with World Vision.   

World Vision and the Water Project

Our main goal, along with World Vision’s, is to help provide people around the world with clean water within a reasonable walking distance from their homes. 

World Vision is the leading non-governmental organization in solving the global water crisis. They approach this crisis by going country by country (currently working in Honduras and raising money for Zambia) while maintaining relatively healthy conditions in others. 

At the current rate, World Vision estimates that the water crisis will be solved by 2030. Once this is completed they hope to provide plumbing systems to individual buildings such as schools or individual houses.

World Vision uses 89% of their income towards their world improvement projects, with the rest being placed in management and fundraising.

What we’re trying to Change

On average, the people who have to walk for water travel four miles, round trip. They will likely even perform this walk more than once a day. The people who are walking for water normally include women and children. 

Children as young as the age of 5 begin to walk for water, preventing them from gaining an education. And, women all over the world collectively lose around 200 million hours a day collecting water.

Bringing water to these people will allow them to gain additional time for various tasks. One of the tasks children would be freed to do is attend school, setting them up for a hopeful future. For women, they would then have the time to invest in an occupation that brings income to their families.

Clean water would also help prevent them from getting diseases such as typhoid, cholera, and diarrhea. 50% of children do not survive to the age of 5 due to the lack of access to clean water. This means that only half of the children even make it to the age in which they’d begin to walk for water.

The Solution

Once again, the goal is to provide everyone with clean water by 2030. The reason this is now an achievable goal is due to the donations of people like you. With people coming together to provide funds for World Vision’s work, we’ve reached a rate of one person gaining clean water every 10 seconds.

The only way to continue to provide people with water at such a fast rate is to gain more awareness of the issue at hand and have donations flooding in. Giving $50 is enough to allow one person access to clean water for life.

$1 donated ends up equating to $5. This is because of governments and other sponsorships which partner with World Vision. So, every donation matters, no matter how small or big.

We can end the water crisis within the next five years. And we can save lives today.

So why wait?