The Best Gift Ever

Water could be the most important gift you give this holiday season. Nothing has a greater impact on a person's life. Clean water brings health, education, and the chance for a better tomorrow. Often, it means life itself.

In developing countries like Ethiopia, women spend up to eight hours each day collecting water from dirty sources. This leads to illness, especially for children. A child dies from diarrhea every 20 seconds.

It doesn't have to be this way. Solutions are affordable and readily available. This holiday season, give the gift that saves lives and brings hope. Give good health, give WATER

Grassroots,org Spot light

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What can your donations DO?

YOUR $5 YES Five dollars can do this much for US.
Enhance a child’s chances for academic success during one school term by providing basic school supplies such as paper, pens, and pencils.

-- Improve health and hygiene of one child by providing a hygiene kit that includes soap, lotion and other hygienic items.

-- Provide materials and training for one backyard garden, which can help meet the nutrition needs of children orphaned by AIDS and their caregivers.


What will your $10 donation DO?
 Save a child’s life by purchasing, delivering and educating a family about the proper use of a mosquito net.

-- Safely deliver immunizations to 150 children by purchasing 150 auto-disable syringes.

-- Stop bouts of dehydration and diarrhea in children by purchasing 150 sachets of oral re hydration salts.

What and the challenges we face.

Around the globe, nearly 1 billion people lack access to water and over 2.5 billion lack access to sanitation. The scope and impact of this crisis are staggering. Illnesses resulting from a lack of safe water kill more children under the age of five than HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined. The United Nations has reported that more people die from water- and sanitation-related disease than from all forms of violence, including war.

Beyond loss of life, water poverty and inadequate sanitation cripple all development efforts. A lack of adequate water and sanitation facilities keeps children, especially girls, from attending school. Women spend an average of 3-5 hours each day fetching water, missing out on opportunities to perform other tasks or engage in economically productive activity. Parents miss work due to water-related illness or caring for sick family members. Existing medical conditions, such as HIV/AIDS, are exacerbated because of unsafe water and inadequate sanitation. Climate change, population growth, industrialization and urbanization all threaten to make the global WASH crisis much worse.

Fortunately, there is room for hope. Waterborne illness is preventable and lasting water supply and sanitation solutions exist. Through concerted efforts by governments, corporations, foundations and nongovernmental organizations, roughly 200 million people have gained access to clean water during the past decade. However, even with these efforts, many countries are unlikely to meet the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) for water and even fewer will reach the MDG for sanitation. Unprecedented collaboration between all sectors of society is needed in order to achieve sustainable solutions to this challenge.

Khadarlis's Challenge brings together leading organizations in the water and sanitation sector to address this fundamental issue through partnerships and innovative approaches to water and sanitation.

Water and its importance

The right to clean water has been adopted by the United Nations as a basic human right. Yet how such universal calls for a right to water are understood, negotiated, experienced and struggled over remain key challenges. The Right to Water elucidates how universal calls for rights articulate with local historical geographical contexts, governance, politics and social struggles, thereby highlighting the challenges and the possibilities that exist.

Khadarlis-change: Our Community Needs you.

Khadarlis-change: Our Community Needs you.: Connecting present participle of con·nect (Verb) 1. Bring together or into contact so that a real or notional ...

Our Community Needs you.

Connecting present participle of con·nect (Verb)

1.      Bring together or into contact so that a real or notional link is established. 2.      Join together so as to provide access and communication.

Changing present participle of change (Verb)

1.      Make or become a Different  substance entirely; transform.

Give

To present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; to place in someone's care:  to grant (permission, opportunity, etc.) to someone: Give me a chance. To impart or communicate:

 Khadarlis for Sierra Leone is changing lives and transforming Communities one day at a time with our work in Rural Villages in Sierra Leone.  Don't you want to be a part of it?

 Khadarlis seeks your support right now to help us continue our work in these developing communities! What can you do to help??
-  http://www .khadarlis.org  Donate:  NOW to support positive and lasting change.

 - Spread the word via Facebook, Twitter, and email.
-http://www.Facebook.com/khadarlis  To view more picture of our work visit- and experience these connections and changes for yourself. 

http://www.youtube.com/user/khadarlis1- To view video about Khadarlis.

Thank you.