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Who Benefits?

Proceeds from entry fees and donations benefit global communities with the majority of proceeds going to support establishment of clean water systems in developing countries where contaminated water is the #1 cause of death.

African woman holding small child

Over 1 billion people today
do not have access to safe water.

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Every 15 seconds a child dies
of a waterborne disease.

Your sponsorship also enables many workers to reach out internationally to support:

  • Orphanages
  • Soup Kitchens
  • Community Health Care and Training
  • Elderly Shut-Ins
  • Those Who Are Persecuted
  • Abstinence Training
  • Leadership Development
  • Vocational Training

Water Installation Begins

Installation begins at Upper Matasia Academy in
Kenya, a school with 330 students from poor families.

 

Completed water tanks

New water tanks are installed at the Methodist
Theological Institute in Nigeria
.

 

children filling water bottles

Children at the West Africa Theological Seminary
in Nigeria fill their bottles with purified water.

 

newly installed water purifier

The site manager with a newly installed purifier at
the Maji Mazuri farm and school complex in Kenya

 

Training Session

A training session for the new water system

 

woman with a bucket of water on her head

A woman carries clean water from the well

 

Latino child with pigtails

Dr. Don McLeod listens to the heartbeat of a Nigerian child.

 

elderly man with two team members

Caring for elderly shut-ins

 

Abstinance education class

Abstinence education in St. Lucia

 

a woman listens to a solar-powered audio player

Captain Clean Water teaches proper hygiene
to Kenyan orphans.

 

Cherona

Cherona, an orphan in Kenya, is depending
on teams to install clean water in her village.

A child gathers water from lake

The need is great - a young boy fills a bucket
with unpurified water from a lake near his home.

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