Inspiration: Healing the Planet

holding the Water is Life straw

What does $10 buy you these days?
2 starbucks coffees? (really I’m asking guessing)
1/2 – 3/4 of a meal in a restaurant?

Even before the economic correction, it seems by our standards $10 doesn’t but a lot. What if I told you $10 saves the life of a child for 1 year!

It is true, I found out about a company that invented a ‘water straw’ that allows villagers who have no potable drinking water, no well, and only disease-laden ponds, by using this straw, filter out the dangers from the water and drink pure, healthy water.

Each straw lasts for a year, and in that time, other donations go to build wells so the villages become self-sufficient. The Water Is Life folks, just sent me 5 samples to bring to India and Ecuador to see if they will help in the areas I visit.

Several years ago in our newsletter, then editor, Ray Noronha  reported this story when the straw came out. Last week there was a tweet-a-ton – a telethon hookup through Twitter to raise money for 20,000 straws for the children in Kenya. Finally I found a way to reconnect and made a donation.

See their site for more fascinating details and inspiring successes they have had

Please tell your friends about this wonderful charity as well!
We also have our own philanthropic causes, but are grateful to be able to share this wonderful idea that is helping more of the 1.1 billion people who do not have access to clean drinking water survive.

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