The need is there, the laborers are in place, we need the funding to begin the process.

The Worldwide Water Crisis
In this day and age, the statistics are seemingly unbelievable - 1.1 billion people lack access to clean drinking water, and nearly 2 million people die each year due to waterborne-related disease (90% of which are children under the age of 5).

As a result, the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a worldwide water crisis among the world's poorest people. Further, the UN has declared 2005-2015 Water for Life: The International Decade for Action.

“Every week, diarrhoeal disease due to easily preventable causes claims the lives of 30,000 people, most of them young children.

- Statement of former WHO Director-General, Dr. LEE Jong-Wook, to mark the International Decade for Action: Water for Life 2005-2015, 3/21/2005

HIV/AIDS and Clean Drinking Water
The lack of clean drinking water is at the root of the African HIV/AIDS pandemic. Children and adults living with HIV/AIDS require clean drinking water to survive. Waterborne illness considered normally mild in healthy adults becomes an incurable death sentence for those affected by HIV/AIDS. In sub-Saharan Africa alone, millions of people lack access to the basic necessity of clean drinking water. In this same region, some 25 million people are living with HIV/AIDS. The result - over 2 million children and adults die of HIV/AIDS annually in sub-Saharan Africa alone.

Integral to this horrible cycle, sickness and disease resulting from the consumption of contaminated drinking water destroy the strength and development of African families and communities. This leads to extreme poverty, lack of education, tremendous inequities, and greater illnesses, creating conditions ripe for the continued spread of HIV/AIDS. Caught in this downward spiral, it becomes difficult, and most cases impossible, for individuals to progress out of their terrible plight.

You can Make A Difference...we are drilling four water wells to provide clean water in Kenya. We need people who are willing to say, "I want to help."

Village Water Tank
 

STREET CHILDREN According to the UN there are 100 - 140 million street children worldwide. To count all 140 million street kids of the world it would take 4 years and 5 months. Some governments in the world say that the street child phenomenon is becoming the greatest problem of the 21st century. (UN)

CHILD LABOR 250 million children between the ages of five and fourteen work in developing countries - at least 120 million full time. 73 million working children are less than 10 years old. 8.4 million children are trapped in slavery. (HRW and ILO)

SEXUAL EXPLOITATION Worldwide, an estimated 10 million children are victim's of today's sex industry. An estimated 1 million children are believed to enter the multi billion dollar market per year. The worst affected area for child prostitution in Asia, where 1 million children are sexually exploited. An estimated 30,000 children in India are in the sex trade, along with between 80,000 and 800,00 children in Thailand. (UNICEF and FREE THE CHILDREN)

CHILDREN OF WAR Around the world, 300 000 persons under the ages of 18 - some as young as 7 - are being exploited as child soldiers. 2 million children have been killed in wars worldwide in the past decade. 6 million children have been disabled. Over 1 million have been orphaned. 10 million have been psychologically traumatized. Countless numbers of children, especially girls, have been raped or subjected to other forms of sexual violence as deliberate instruments of war. (UNICEF)

GIRL CHILDREN 60 to 100 million girls have "gone missing" from the world's population - victims of feticide, infanticide, malnutrition and neglect. Approximately 2 million girls are forced to undergo genital mutilation each year. (UNICEF)