Glass ceilings aside, millions of women are prohibited from accomplishing little more than survival. Not because of a lack of ambition, or ability, but because of a lack of water. Millions of women and children in the developing world spend untold hours daily, collecting water from distant, often polluted sources, then return to their villages carrying their filled 40 pound jerry cans on their backs. And though women are responsible for the majority of food production in their villages, their productivity is severely limited by this constant struggle.
But the real tragedy is that the problem is so easy to solve. For just $25 water.org can provide clean, sustainable drinking water for one person for life, bringing opportunity, hope and possibilities to lives without them.
What Can You Do?
Join us as we combat the water crisis and work for the day when women are free from the all consuming search for water, making it possible for them to lead productive lives of hope and dignity in a world where everyone in the world can take a safe drink of water.
- Sign up to receive our monthly newsletter with our latest stories, projects, and ways you can help.
- Bring someone clean water for life: Donate.
- Get involved in your school, your community or go online and spread the word.
- Check out the Give Yourself section below for more ideas.
Water isn’t just a world crisis, it’s a women’s crisis. We can change the world, and we can do it one woman at a time if we have to.
Give Your Voice
We know you want to help, but we also know cash might not be that easy to come by. That doesn’t mean there’s nothing you can do.
You’re an influential person. No really. Whether your network includes thousands of dedicated followers or just a few close friends and family members, people listen to you. And getting our message out is worth plenty. While we can’t pay you to use your sway, we can make it easy and effective. We’ve created some social networking resources – avatars, signatures and the like — for you to use wherever and whenever you want, each with it’s own assigned virtual value. Using them is almost like making a cash donation, and best of all, they’ll make a difference. So use them everywhere and often.
Put your Facebook, Twitter or blog power to work for women around the world. If enough people spread the word, we figure that’s a donation worth millions in saved advertising dollars; money we can put to work providing water.
User Icon / Avatar | Background | Poster | About Me | Signature | Video
On the other hand, if you do happen to find a little something between the couch cushions, we happily accept cash donations.
Here are some examples of people giving their voice:
- http://athomemomblog.com/thankful-productivity/
- http://girlfriendology.com/blog/2723/women-water-who-knew-it-was-an-international-crisis/
- Fittiefive’s YouTube video
- HungryGirl’s eNewsletter
- Jonathan Greenblatt’s article
Network
Become a friend, a fan, subscriber or a follower in your favorite networks! It’s the easiest way to give yourself.
Fan or Follow Us
Click to fan or friend us
Link to this page
Or better yet, go ahead and post a link to this page now on Facebook or your Twitter feed! You friends and followers will love you for it.
User Icon / Avatar
Whether you’re talking on instant messenger, on a forum, or on Twitter, your user icon can say a lot about you. Change your avatar to one of these images to show your support of water.org.
Background
Transform the background of any of your websites to support the women’s water crisis. It works great on YouTube, Twitter, MySpace or anywhere else you can change the background image! You could even use it as your desktop’s background.
Poster
Print this poster out where others can see it, and it’s like you’re giving $2 to water.org. Hang it up near the coffee machine at work, in the cubicle, in your locker, or anywhere else people will see it!
About Me
Utilize that About Me section that so many websites give you when you make a profile. Copy and paste one of these messages (or write your own) where you think people will see it.
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Women can’t be anything
Women can’t do anything
Because of the time they must spend
Collecting water for their families
$25 can change that.
If you can’t give money, give your voice
Learn more at water.org.
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∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ http://www.water.org ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞
I support the efforts of water.org!
Copying and pasting this into my profile
has the same value as a $5 donation
in helping solve the world water crisis
If you can’t give money, give yourself.
Learn more at water.org.
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* Are you active in online dating? Your profile there is read by dozens and dozens of new people. Show them what you care about by linking to water.org!
Signature Style #1
If you’re active in forums or have a nifty place on your personal website to include one of these linked images, then you’re helping water.org in a way that’s equal to a $5 donation.
BBCode (Forum Code)
You can copy and paste the code below into a post, your signature, or anywhere else on the following forums: phpBB, Invision, vBulletin, etc
[url=http://www.water.org/women/]
[img]http://static.water.org/images/2009/wc_images/signature1.gif [/img] [/url]
HTML Code
You can copy and paste the code below into your blog, website page, or an e-mail.
<a href="http://www.water.org/women"> <img src="http://static.water.org/images/2009/wc_images/signature1.gif" border="0"></a>
Signature Style #2
BBCode (Forum Code)
You can copy and paste the code below into a post, your signature, or anywhere else on the following forums: phpBB, Invision, vBulletin, etc
[url=http://www.water.org/women/]
[img]http://static.water.org/images/2009/wc_images/signature2.gif [/img] [/url]
HTML Code
You can copy and paste the code below into your blog, website page, or an e-mail.
<a href="http://www.water.org/women"> <img src="http://static.water.org/images/2009/wc_images/signature2.gif" border="0"></a>
Video
Embed our video in your blog, on your facebook page, or even create your own video message, featuring our 30 second video. If you have a lot of viewers and you’re in the video business, your donation could be equal to thousands of saved advertising dollars.
Mother/Daughter Talk video
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Women Can’t Do Anything video
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Ahhhhh! This is overwhelming! I’m not a techy person!
We don’t want you spending hours trying to figure out how to get a background image changed or trying to make your user icon work. If anything on Give Yourself seems overwhelming, then don’t worry about it! An actual donation of money is a great way of giving if you can’t give yourself. Set up a one-time donation, or a repeating donation at http://donate.water.org
This campaign was made possible by the ongoing support of the Open Square Foundation.
