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• “The stock of global empathy has to grow if we are to meet agreements which out the long term needs of the whole planet and all its people ahead of short term national concerns.”

—MATTHEW TAYLOR
RSA, 21 Century Enlightenment

 

 

—”NEARLY ONE BILLION PEOPLE LIVE WITHOUT CLEAN DRINKING WATER.”

 

• Water affects everything; education, health, poverty and especially women and children.

• In different places around the world, women and children spend more time collecting water than any other activity they do in the day. Many walk up to three hours a day to the nearest swamp, pond or river to gather water that’s been sitting out in the open, exposed to all kinds of germs.

• When they make it home, the little water they’ve collected isn’t clean. Is contaminated with germs that cause diarrhea, dehydration, even death.

• Children, especially babies, are affected most by these germs… According to the organization Charity Water, about every nineteen seconds a mother loses one of her children to a water related illness.

• There are solutions. A safe water project near an affected area means less disease; therefore, less money spent on medicine and more hours each day to a person’s life. This time is opportunity. It’s freedom to get an education, to work or start a business, to raise a family.

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Art Credits: Albanian painter Agim Sulaj

Image Via: Anti politique mondiale

Info Source: Charity Water; Water Changes Everything.

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• “You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.”

—Malcolm X (1925-1965)  

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