ARE YOU WITH US?
WE BELIEVE EVERY CHILD DESERVES CLEAN WATER
ARE YOU WITH US?
Just $75 provides a lifetime filter to one mother
who provides clean water to 4 families
WE BELIEVE EVERY CHILD DESERVES CLEAN WATER.
ARE YOU WITH US?
WE BELIEVE EVERY CHILD DESERVES CLEAN WATER.
ARE YOU WITH US?
Just $75 provides a lifetime filter to one mother
who provides clean water to 4 families
ARE YOU WITH US?
WE BELIEVE EVERY CHILD DESERVES CLEAN WATER.
ARE YOU WITH US?
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This special project is being conducted in direct collaboration with and permission of elected leadership of the Navajo Nation.
$75 sponsors a Navajo family for a lifetime Sawyer PointONE filter, along with a bucket, special modification hardware, delivery and training for a lifetime of clean, safe water.
A Special Gift Today for the Navajo Nation
- The Navajo Code Talkers were a big part of the US victory of Iwo Jima and many other campaigns which resulted in victories during World War II
- Served in the US Marine Corps
- The Code Talkers provided the U.S. military with an unbreakable code which utilized the Navajo language.
Why a Water Campaign for the Code Talkers?
- Our Navajo collaborators tell us that the Code Talkers have a special connection to water. They sailed over the great waters (the oceans) and protected their fellow Americans and brothers in arms.
- Currently about 30% of the population in the Navajo Nation does not have running water in their homes. Running water is critical in disease prevention. The surviving Code Talkers and their descendants need assistance especially during this time.
- Due to red tape they and their descendents/people continue to live in ways most of us would find unacceptable, including water scarcity and lack of safe drinking water.
- Without clean water the Navajo Code Talkers and descendants are at high risk for
- Disease transmission
- Dehydration (from disease symptoms)
- WWB is conducting a special campaign on Memorial Day in honor of the Code Talkers who gave their lives in war.
- This project is part of our Navajo Nation COVID-19 response, for which we have already raised over $40,000.
- You can honor the Code Talkers with a donation which will provide a guaranteed lifetime filter for clean water.
- $75 provides a Navajo family with a Sawyer PointONE filter.
- An anonymous donor has offered a dollar for dollar $3000 challenge grant
- $6000 = 80 additional Navajo Families equipped with Sawyer PointONE filters
- We’re already up to at least 550 families funded — this Memorial Day campaign will mean over 600 families with access to clean, safe drinking water.
- This Memorial Day weekend is an excellent time to reflect on the courage and sacrifice of service members killed in action during WW2. The sacrifices being asked of us pale in comparison, but the outcome that can be made by your thoughtful donation is just as important and impactful.
- Please help us spread the news of this campaign to all your military and veteran contacts or consider making a donation on behalf of a military member.
ABOUT US
We are mothers and missioners bringing clean water to God’s thirsty children.
As Water With Blessings…we equip and empower and entrust mothers to become Water Women: compassionate mothers to become agents of change in their communities who filter clean water for their families and neighbors. And…we equip and empower and entrust missioners to join us as Mission Partners, bringing the Water With Blessings ministry to their mission sites.
The Problem
- Every 24 hours, 10000 or more children die because of dirty water
2. Death by dirty water threatens millions of young children and their families.
3. Water is most definitely a women’s (mother’s) issue. Women and their children are disproportionately affected by water inaccessibility and waterborne disease. Contaminated water causes 90% of the deaths of children under age 5, but it also contributes to miscarriages and vaginal diseases, as well as chronic “common” disease such as intestinal parasites and diarrhea. This is borne out by our own data collection, particularly in Haiti. In developing countries, the work of fetching water falls almost exclusively to women and girls; in fact, the task of carrying water is often cited as a reason that girls cannot be spared to attend school. We hear over and over as well about women and girls who must pay, often with their bodies, to gain access to water for their families.
The Solution
Mothers and community
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We’re a community for mission, beginning with over 100K mothers who serve as Water Women for their own and 3 other families.
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We know that mothers make the difference for their children.
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Our program allows mothers to make the difference for their communities as well.
Our Mission community
The Results
Mother by Mother
Even the most needy mothers become valued contributors to their communities. Water Women are heroes for their own people.
Women gain personal confidence and self-value as Water Women and Water Teachers.
Family by Family
Everyone enjoys drinking clean water! For many, clean water is a new and amazing taste experience.
Everyone receives the full nutritional benefits of the food they have available.
All family members are freed from intestinal parasites and frequent bouts of diarrhea, and protected from exposure to deadly waterborne diseases like cholera and typhoid.
Family members no longer bear the burden of imminent death by dirty water for their young children and fragile elders.
People no longer miss school or work because of waterborne disease, and they feel better while they tackle those activities.
Scarce resources are no longer diverted to the purchase of filtered water, but now are available for food, medication, education.
Community By Community
Saturation goal: Every family has access to a Water Woman.
Deadly waterborne diseases like cholera and typhoid are eradicated.
Follow-up surveys and correlation with independent health providers confirms a 95% reduction in waterborne disease in young children.
we equip, empower and entrust mothers as agents of clean water and compassion for their communities.
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Equip: with Sawyer PointONE filters, top-rated
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Empower: with award-winning training program
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Entrust: mothers sign a sacred covenant to filter for other families around them