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Your gift helps provide clean water to an entire community
When you give this gift, you're helping build water cisterns, hand pumps, and storage tanks that bring clean, safe water to remote villages. Local experts provide materials and training, working with communities to build and maintain sustainable water supplies that serve families for years to come.
"I think that our future is certainly brighter. With water secured, I can focus on income generation." - Mortikana, Ethiopia
What your gift provides:
- Clean water infrastructure: Cement water cisterns, hand pumps, and storage tanks built close to villages
- Time and dignity for women and children: No more walking hours each day to collect water
- Health and safety: Protection from deadly water-borne diseases and longer, healthier lives
- Education and opportunity: Children stay hydrated and focused at school, families can pursue income generation
- Community cooperation: Whole communities work together to preserve their water supply, reducing conflict
Why this makes the perfect gift:
- Ideal fundraising goal for parishes, schools, and community groups
- Transforms entire communities with sustainable, life-saving infrastructure
- Available as a postal card, eCard, or print-at-home option
- Meaningful gift for birthdays, Christmas, Mother's Day, Father's Day, and special occasions
Real impact in Ethiopia
Mortikana, 70, lives in rural southern Ethiopia. Her village had no water source, forcing Mortikana and other women to walk six hours every day to collect clean water.
CAFOD and a local partner organisation built a cement water cistern with enough capacity for Mortikana's entire village. The cement structure prevents evaporation, and its location close to the village means women no longer spend hours walking for water.
"Us women have more time to care for our families now that the water source is next to our village," says Mortikana. "I can look after my children at home and send them to school with water to keep them hydrated and focused. They are clean every day now. We all are."
With her family's basic needs met, Mortikana is hopeful about the future: "With water secured, I can focus on income generation. My children's life will be better than mine, more stable and happier."
Give the gift of clean water today and help a community build a brighter future.
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Your gift helps provide clean water to an entire community
When you give this gift, you're helping build water cisterns, hand pumps, and storage tanks that bring clean, safe water to remote villages. Local experts provide materials and training, working with communities to build and maintain sustainable water supplies that serve families for years to come.
"I think that our future is certainly brighter. With water secured, I can focus on income generation." - Mortikana, Ethiopia
What your gift provides:
- Clean water infrastructure: Cement water cisterns, hand pumps, and storage tanks built close to villages
- Time and dignity for women and children: No more walking hours each day to collect water
- Health and safety: Protection from deadly water-borne diseases and longer, healthier lives
- Education and opportunity: Children stay hydrated and focused at school, families can pursue income generation
- Community cooperation: Whole communities work together to preserve their water supply, reducing conflict
Why this makes the perfect gift:
- Ideal fundraising goal for parishes, schools, and community groups
- Transforms entire communities with sustainable, life-saving infrastructure
- Available as a postal card, eCard, or print-at-home option
- Meaningful gift for birthdays, Christmas, Mother's Day, Father's Day, and special occasions
Real impact in Ethiopia
Mortikana, 70, lives in rural southern Ethiopia. Her village had no water source, forcing Mortikana and other women to walk six hours every day to collect clean water.
CAFOD and a local partner organisation built a cement water cistern with enough capacity for Mortikana's entire village. The cement structure prevents evaporation, and its location close to the village means women no longer spend hours walking for water.
"Us women have more time to care for our families now that the water source is next to our village," says Mortikana. "I can look after my children at home and send them to school with water to keep them hydrated and focused. They are clean every day now. We all are."
With her family's basic needs met, Mortikana is hopeful about the future: "With water secured, I can focus on income generation. My children's life will be better than mine, more stable and happier."
Give the gift of clean water today and help a community build a brighter future.
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