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Pledge to Bring Clean Water AND Children's Laughter to Rural Africa
Sponsored by: PlayPumps InternationalAccess to clean water is a very serious problem for more than one billion people. But this doesn't have to be the case. This holiday season, you can help children in Africa have fun and be healthy. The PlayPump International water system pumps clean water while children play on a merry-go-round.
Did you know that water-related diseases are the leading cause of death in the world? And did you also know that:
Pledge your support to bring clean, safe water AND the sound of children's laughter to impoverished areas of Sub-Saharan Africa.
Did you know that water-related diseases are the leading cause of death in the world? And did you also know that:
- The average person in rural Africa must walk five miles to the nearest water source;
- Girls and women spend a total of over 200 million hours per day collecting water from often polluted sources; and
- The average five-gallon container of water weighs about 40 pounds.
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Pledge to Bring Clean Water AND Children's Laughter to Rural Africa. it's important to bring clean water and fun to rual Africa because kids need to drink clean water instead of dirty water. and kids need fun in order to live they're lives. kids and family's are dying from diseases and aids and poverty and hunger in africa. Thank You.
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The life blood of all living things is water. We all know the right thing to do but corporate profits get in the way all to often. Much of what was when we were young is no more forever, greed will befall the greedy also...
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No children, no future.
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Everyone deserves the basics for sustaining life, clean water, nourishing food, to put a smile on their faces.
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The struggle to get clean water is a major struggle for humankind and I am happy that someone came up with such a useful and helpful answer for some of our precious people in this world.
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