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World Water Day is a chance for us to cheer about our community (you!) and most importantly the communities we serve in Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Sudan and most recently Burkina Faso.<\/p>\nWorld Water Day is a chance for us to cheer about our community (you!) and most importantly the communities we serve in Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Sudan and most recently Burkina Faso.<\/p>\n
Water is something we all share. It’s a community resource. Making sure we all have access to the 1% of the earth’s water we can actually drink will always require that we work together.<\/p>\n
So, this World Water Day, we want to take a moment to celebrate how community makes that happen.<\/p>\n
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Over the past few years, thousands of you rallied your own local community to help provide clean, safe water to villages in Africa.<\/p>\n From car washes (like this one at Cashmere High in New Zealand), to bake sales, water walks, talent shows, and even teeter-tottering, you helped build a first step – access to clean, safe water.<\/p>\n And right now, tens of thousands of people are building on that foundation. Developing communities are using their new resource everyday – not just to survive, but to thrive and work toward an even better tomorrow – just like you do.<\/p>\n Without your voice, in your community, this wouldn’t be possible.\u00a0 So to better\u00a0celebrate World Water Day, why not take a moment to invite someone new to the story?<\/p>\n Head over to Facebook<\/a> or Twitter<\/a> and post an update about what we’re doing together.\u00a0 Encourage your friends to “Like<\/a>” or “Follow Us<\/a>“.<\/p>\n Together we can make an even bigger impact.\u00a0 (For fun, for every 100 new likes we get we’ll give away a water bottle<\/a> to a random follower.)<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n We know that the greatest accomplishments and the most exciting new ideas made possible by our work won’t simply pour out from the tap of a new well. They’ll come from the hands and minds of the people who use it.<\/p>\n People change everything. Clean, safe water helps make that possible.<\/p>\n That’s why today is most importantly a chance to celebrate the amazing communities we are privileged to partner with in countries like Kenya.<\/p>\n One of the most recent success stories is unfolding in Mtito Andei, a small town on the road between Nairobi and Mombasa in Kenya<\/p>\n Here, TWP’s partner, The Africa Sand Dam Foundation, is working with the Kakai Self Help Group. The people of Kakai have organized themselves into a team comprised of 22 men and 18 women.\u00a0 This leadership team plays an integral role in mobilizing the rest of the community as they work to construct a sand dam and shallow well.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/car-wash-650.jpg\" "\\"car-wash-650\\"")
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