The acronym for WHOlives.org is Water, Health and Opportunity. The best way to get out of poverty is through clean water, which leads to better health, which leads to more opportunity for kids and adults.

By creating the “Village Drill” (a human powered drilling rig) we can now bring clean water to millions of people. The delivery of this water drill will provide new hope to the families of the 3.75 million people that die and the nearly 1 billion who suffer every day from scarce and contaminated water.

Half of all hospital beds are occupied by people who are sick due to contaminated water. With clean water you can eradicate half the problems on an already overburdened health care system, freeing up beds and doctors to concentrate on other health needs such as AIDS, Malaria, and Measles.

Now that your community is not dying and twice as many people are healthy you can grow opportunity. When women and girls are not fetching water for 6 hours a day they can be involved with education an entrepreneurial endeavors. For men, to be healthy means to be more consistent with their daily labor. Most importantly is that healthy children do not miss school, they study and they build a new future for their families.

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