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 Your gift will improve the quality of life for rural communities. Honduras is one of the poorest countries in the Americas. CRS Honduras is working with our partner to meet the water needs of poor farm families. more $25
 Treating drinking water costs less than one penny per family per day, and could save one million children’s lives each year. This specific gift can provide more than 2500 families with safe drinking water. more $100
 The cost of a PlayPump system for a school or community is approximately US$14,000 (±Rand 90,000). Your gift of $100 will purchase a share of a PlayPump water system and we’ll be one step closer in providing access to clean water for another community. more $10
 Your gift will provide one water filter that has a tested and proven capacity to reduce the incidence of water borne illness and substantially reduce childhood diarrhea by up to 70%. more $100
 This gift will pay for 130 children to receive health and sanitation education classes. We are constructing five community spring water catchment systems and pit latrines for individual households and the local elementary school, and providing health education, community development and technical training. more $45
 Your gift will fund one trip by an activist to help document and report ongoing abusive practices against these communities. Because of the work of Fund grantee Green Advocates, these local communities are starting to organize, resist, and generate media attention. more $250
 Your gift will provide a KickStart pump for one family, lifting them out of poverty forever. What does "out of poverty" look like? It means a family has enough food to eat, decent clothes and shelter, enough money to send ALL of their children to school and STILL have money left over to invest in the future. more $250
 The gift allows us to pay for the drilling equipment and labor required to rehabilitate one existing well. This would provide water for cooking, drinking, sanitation and agriculture and benefit many lives, because in some communities, as many as ten thousand people share a single well. more $500
 This gift enables us to pump and deliver (via trucks) enough freshwater to a village of 300 people that would sufficiently last them a week. more $100
 Your donation will be used to help farmers harvest water that is available to them. A simple irrigation system connecting their farms to major rivers is enough to double their productivity. more $25
 This gift will help bring fresh, clean water to the home of an indigenous family in Guatemala or Mexico by providing the pipes and tools needed to connect their home to a new community water system. With easy access to potable water, water- borne diseases and infant mortality rates drop dramatically. more $100
 Your gift will purchase one family's share in a community water system to support small scale production of high value crops like fruits and vegetables. In addition to providing water for irrigation, your gift will furnish water for household uses – drinking, cooking, and cleaning. more |
