Only 36 percent of rural Zambian population has access to an improved water source.
Ride your bike, save lives.
Do you believe that everyone deserves something as simple and crucial for life as clean, safe water? Do you believe a child in Zambia should spend her day in school instead of fetching dirty, diseased water from a pit? Do you believe you can make a difference?
We do.
Nearly 4.8 million people in Zambia have no access to clean, safe water[1]. The dirty water they do have makes them sick. It robs children of hope. But it doesn’t have to be that way. We know that access to clean, safe water changes lives.
When a well is installed for a village, girls return to school. Women begin small businesses. Men are no longer too sick to work. Fields are watered and food supply becomes more reliable. Health returns and children grow up to be productive members of their community. The cycle of poverty is broken. Lives change.
Access to clean, safe water isn’t an end, it’s a means.
We need your help.The lack of adequate water sources and sanitation facilities has created serious health risks for Zambia, resulting in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality, and high rates of preventable disease transmission. Additionally, water and sanitation issues severely impact those suffering from HIV/AIDS because of their compromised immune systems.
Join us for Thirst on Saturday July 21, 2012, as we ride in the 38th Annual Holland Hundred Bicycle Tour, hosted by the Macatawa Cycling Club to raise the funds for clean water wells benefiting Living Water International: Zambia. The ride features a scenic ride through West Michigan farmland, orchards, vineyards and along the Lake Michigan lakeshore.
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See the wells that have been dug through Thirst
- Musele Basic School, Solwezi, Zambia
PDF link - Mangisha, Solwezi, Zambia
PDF link - Kamfumfula, Solwezi, Zambia
PDF link - Mashawu Benson, Solwezi, Zambia
PDF link - Solwezi Dist. NW Province, Kata, Zambia
PDF link - Solwezi Dist. NW Province, Nsonta, Zambia
PDF link - Solwezi Dist. NW Province, Nkhenyawuli Basic School, Zambia
PDF link - Solwezi Dist. NW Province, Mangisha, Zambia
PDF link - Solwezi Dist. NW Province, Kansazhi, Zambia
PDF link - Solwezi Dist. NW Province, Kamiili – Chikopa, Zambia
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Find out more about clean water
- More than half of Africa’s people lack access to safe drinking water.
www.dropinthebucket.com - In the past ten years, diarrhea has killed more children worldwide than all the people lost to armed conflict since World War II.
www.wateraid.org - 12 million people die each year from lack of safe drinking water, including more than 3 million who die from waterborne diseases.
www.who.org - Over 80% of the disease in developing countries is related to poor drinking water and sanitation.
www.who.org - A child dies every 15 seconds from diseases related to unsafe water, inadequate sanitation and poor hygiene.
www.knowh2o.org - 1.1 billion people worldwide 1 in 6) lack access to safe drinking water…causing 25,000 people to die daily.
www.worldhope.org - In many areas of sub-Saharan Africa, women and girls often walk an average of 5 miles to the nearest water source every day.
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