Charity Water Essay

498 Words2 Pages
Water Changes Everything I recently went to the colloquia hosted by Charity: Water. I was absolutely blown away by the lecture, and left feeling inspired, motivated and moved. A young eccentric hipster named Chubby Graham came as a representative for the organization. He captured the attention of everyone in the Schine auditorium with his vivid body language, clear voice and outgoing personality. Everyone’s concentration was fully on him, as he kept us riveted with his moving stories and many pictures. Charity: water is an organization that brings clean- and safe drinking water to people in developing nations. Its goal is to raise awareness of the need for clean water and increase funding for water projects. Around the world, nearly 1 billion people, most in the developing world, are living without clean drinking water. Many do not have access to a convenient faucet with clean water, and instead women and children have to collect water from the nearest source. Many of these people use up to three hours a day to collect water. In Africa alone, people spend 40 billion hours every day walking to collect water! This time keeps the women and children from being in school, taking care of their families and working. To make the situation even worse the water they collect is most often very dirty and contaminated with different kinds of bacteria. The bacteria cause various kinds of diseases and sicknesses, some of them leading to death. Charity: water helps these people out of the water crisis. The organization builds water filtration systems and dig wells to bring clean water closer to the families and villages. A water project can save a village many hours which instead can be used for work and education. Moreover, a project can save lives. Charity: water is an organization that is forging a more just society for the common good. The people of Charity: water

More about Charity Water Essay

Open Document