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CHARITY:WATER
Former OA swimmer Becky Straw is now
working for an outanding organization called Charity:
Water. This is a non-profit group that is trying
to bring clean drinking water to impoverished areas of
Africa. Orinda Aquatics supports this organiztion in a
variety of ways. The OA swimmer contact is Chis Chuck.
Please read more about Charity:Water at charity:water.org
From the website:
It’s hard not to think about water
today. In the western world, we face growing concerns about our
stewardship of the world’s most precious resource.
There’s talk of shortages, evidence of reservoirs and
aquifers drying up, and of course, plenty of people who simply
don’t care.
But forget about us.
Most of us have never really been thirsty. We’ve never had to
leave our houses and walk 5 miles to fetch water. We simply turn on
the tap, and water comes out. Clean. Yet more than 1.1 billion
people on the planet don’t have clean water.
It’s hard to imagine what a billion people looks like really,
but one in six might be easier. One in six people in our world
don’t have access to the most basic of human needs. Something
we can’t imagine going 12 hours without.
Here, we’d
like to introduce you to a few of those billion people. They are
very real, and they need our help. They didn’t choose to be
born into a village where the only source of water is a polluted
swamp. And we didn’t choose to be born in a country where
even the homeless have access to clean water and a toilet.
We invite you to put yourself in their shoes. Follow them on their
daily journey. Carry 80 pounds of water in yellow fuel cans. Dig
with their children in sand for water. Line up at a well and wait 8
hours for a turn.
Now, make a decision to help. We’re not offering grand
solutions and billion dollar schemes, but instead, simple things
that work. Things like freshwater wells, rainwater catchments and
sand filters. For about $20 a person, we know how to help millions
of people.
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