The best Christmas wish, the best Christmas present in the world, water
If you could have anything this Christmas what would you wish for? For over 800 million people around the world, a chance to have clean, safe water is at the very top of their wish list. Because without it, death and disease are a constant.
Can you imagine a Christmas where you couldn’t get water, couldn’t drink a cool refreshing glass of water, as you celebrate in Australia’s sunshine?
6000 children will die from water-related diseases in the developing world on Christmas Day.
Christmas Gifts
You can help very simply, don’t buy Christmas cards this year and instead of contributing to the $500 million + greeting card industry, just make a donation to WaterAid to receive a Christmas e-Card to pass it on to all your friends, clients, company and communities to send your Christmas greeting this year.
A donation as little as $10 is more cost effective than buying cards and buys water for Christmas.
Just $33 gives one person clean water, efficient sanitation and hygiene education.
Or give monthly, just $15 a month provides all the equipment required to build a sanitation block to deliver clean water and start to stamp out poverty and disease.
It is a Christmas wish come true, a Christmas present of clean water to someone who can’t just turn on a tap.
Australians give each other over 260 million Christmas cards and envelopes every year, Be eco-friendly and welcome a carbon-free Christmas effort that supports a basic human right – the simple access to clean water.
Stella lives with her three young children in Jeremiah, a village in the Kafue district of Zambia. Due to many years of severe drought the water table has dropped drastically.
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