COVID-19 UPDATE: We are in urgent need of your support.

Hand washing requires soap AND clean water! We provide both. Your gift of Cryptocurrency is needed to keep our critical care teams working and maintaining water points during this crisis as they train communities on disease prevention.

Regular sources of donations are slowing even as the need is growing. We need the Cryptocurrency community more than ever!

This week's latest news from the front-lines

• Since this past April, our teams have engaged in training communities on COVID-19, ways to prevent its spread, and how to ensure that they stay safe while fetching water. In total, our teams led nearly 750 trainings reaching over 70,000 people. We are continuing to train communities and support water points in Kenya, Sierra Leone, and Uganda.
• Our teams also completed 429 repairs on water points in need of attention in that time.
• The outbound phone-based monitoring system initially tested in Sierra Leone is now in the operational phase in Kenya and Uganda.
• Our teams contiune training communities on COVID-19. Instead of isolated COVID sensitization and prevention training, all program teams now integrate COVID-related training into regularly scheduled health and hygiene training held at all newly implemented project sites.
• Sarah Saiya, a farmer and mother, living in Western Kenya, shared what she learned after our team completed training on preventing COVID-19.
  
  "The training has really opened my eyes to how serious this COVID-19 disease is. A lot has been said about it, but deep inside, I have been having this doubt that it's not real. With you coming all this way to sensitize us on this disease, I have now believed that it's real, and I will now seriously stick to the regulations laid down by our Ministry of Health and follow all you've taught us today," said Sarah.
  
  "Many community members - including myself - have been using masks when in public to avoid being arrested by the police and not because they want to protect themselves. Few have been washing their hands, but social distancing has been a dream since people still mingle."
  
  "After this training, with the availability of plenty of water now, I will ensure my home has a handwashing point with soap. Community members who attended the meeting have seen the importance of avoiding crowded places, and so they will avoid burials and weddings during this pandemic. It's our tradition here to give our deceased a send-off by attending the burial, but we will be careful by sticking to the regulated numbers [of attendees]."

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Over 220 water projects have been funded in part by these donations, allowing us to continue our bold initiative of transparency and water project reliability.

"The Water Promise" initiative combines high tech monitoring and local repair teams to help ensure that safe water isn't just provided... but that it's also reliable over time. Smart-phone collected data from our water points in Africa are posted online and in real-time for all to see - when things break and every day that water flows!

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