Hydrate Hope is the first global project of I Am Change. It began out of asking the question, “with so many needs in the world, where can we begin to make a differenceâ€.Our answer…start with the worst need first. With water being the #1 killer in the world, our passion is to engage this preventable global atrocity head on. Over 1.1 Billion people in our world have no access to clean water. That's basically 1 out of every 6 people on our planet. More than 2 million people, mostly children, die each year from preventable waterborne illnesses. 2.6 Billion people are without basic sanitation. The heartbreaker...4 children die every minute...that means that every 15 seconds another child dies....we want this to change. This has to change!
We dream of seeing millions of lives changed by providing access to clean water, adequate sanitation and hygiene education. HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other life-threatening diseases will look radically different as clean water becomes available to help build healthy immune systems. Poverty will begin to change as people can devote less time and energy to transporting water and more time to strengthen micro-enterprise. Education will look different as children, primarily girls, will spend less time trekking to distant, unclean water sources and more time in school.
Whether we are digging new wells or repairing old wells, Hydrate Hope is not only striving to prevent the daily loss of more than 25,000 precious lives through providing access to clean water, but to enhance life around the world.
Currently our focus is well repair in Sierra Leone which is ranked the #1 most unlivable country in the world by the U.N. We are soon launching Bio-Sand filter projects in Honduras, with more repair and drilling projects in the coming months.
Join us in bringing hope to the lives of those who really need it! Change Brings Hope.
Hydrate Hope is the first global project of I Am Change.
