The Thirst Project
The Thirst Project is a group of young people who have a dream to save lives. They help build wells anywhere they possibly can. In order to build wells they need money and there's where us the people come in and try to raise money. The Thirst Project was born in 2007 one man realized how bad the water crisis really is so he decided to gather his closest college friends and they bought water bottles and gave them away to people. That's when the Thirst Project was born.
To save families in really poor countries we must build wells, that's the solution. To build one well/pump it cost about $7,000. Right now The Thirst Project is focusing on trying to help out Swaziland. One step at a time. For me to help out is by saving water. For example I could take shorter showers and/or I could stop he water while brushing my teeth. I asked my parents for 2$ to help out this organization and they were completely fine with it. When I became aware of how bad the water crisis was I wanted to help out. Without clean water people cant survive. For example, a person may get ring worm, they could loose vision in their eye, or they get very ill and throw up constantly. I have not experienced a day without water, luckily. Now that I know that having water in my everyday life is a privilege and I must try my best to conserve water because so people really need it. From now on I should taker shorter showers. My parents at the beginning were curious of where the money was going but after they were completely okay with it. I felt good about donating 1$ because to me that's nothing but to someone else its very valuable. The Thirst Project needs t be known by lots of people. |