In March this year, I climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro with ten other participants in The Water Climb. The aim of the climb was to reach the highest point in Africa while raising awareness for the great work done by The Water School. I achieved both, reaching the top of the mountain (5895m) on 31st March and raising $7,800 for The Water School in the process.
Now it’s your turn. I’m hoping to raise over $10,000 before the end of 2011, so please be one of the donations that helps me cover the $2,200 I have left to raise.
While in Africa, we experienced firsthand the amazing, sustainable work done by The Water School in Africa. It goes like this:
- One school at a time, teach the kids that, to get safe drinking water and prevent thousands of deaths each year, all you need is a clear plastic bottle.
- Teach them to fill the plastic bottle with dirty water.
- Teach them to leave it in the sun for 12 hours.
- Teach them they can drink water without fear of disease and death.
All of this can be done for just $10 per child. So, for each $10 raised, you are saving the life of one person. It’s not much considering how much we spend on wrapping paper and tape at this time of year.
It really was incredibly poignant to visit the kids in their schools and think that, without this program, tens, maybe hundreds of the children in front of us would be dead. Simply because they drank contaminated water.
Healthy kids means less danger of child mortality which means less need to have large families, which means more sustainable population size, which means less poverty and hunger which means healthy kids which means…
Anything you can afford would be massively appreciated and I know will be used solely to fulfill the Water School’s programs.
Thank you.
Ed
You can read my thoughts after visiting the schools in Nairobi here.
You can see pictures of the climb here
And here.