Feature
According to the World Health Organization over 3.6% of the
global disease burden can be prevented by simply improving water
supply, sanitation, and hygiene. Feeding our world takes up to 90%
of our freshwater withdrawals, and in most rural communities,
women and young girls are responsible for walking to collect
water for their families, filling up time that would otherwise be
used to pursue an education or earn extra income.
Due Diligence and Good Stewardship
charity: water continuously strives to be good stewards of
fundraising efforts and donor funds. They take several steps to
ensure money is utilized in the way it was intended. “We have two
separate bank accounts, one is for operational and the other is for
water—you cannot touch one or the other for different reasons,”
Choe said. “So every single dollar we get from the public goes
to our accounts for water and ever single dollar from “The Well”
goes towards our operations.”
Since its inception, charity: water has provided a way for donors
to track every completed water project on Google Maps, along with
photos of the project. Now, charity: water’s program Dollars to
Projects, takes that one step further by showing the water project
impact, dollar by dollar.
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How the program works is this: when you donate, charity: water
sends your money to local part