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Pledge to Bring Clean Water AND Children's Laughter to Rural Africa

Sponsored by: PlayPumps International

Access 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:

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.

The award-winning PlayPumps design is a great solution! So far, nearly 700 PlayPumps have been installed near schools in South Africa, and with your help PlayPumps can bring clean drinking water to another 10 million people by 2010.

Pledge your support to bring clean, safe water AND the sound of children's laughter to impoverished areas of Sub-Saharan Africa.

deadline: 12-8-2007
goal: 5,000

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I pledge to help provide access to clean drinking water, bring joy to children, and improve health, education, gender equality, and economic development in rural Africa by supporting PlayPumps International, a nonprofit organization dedicated to help improve the lives of children and their families by providing easy access to drinking water.

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Today, more than 1.1 billion people around the world have no access to clean drinking water. Unless action is taken, the number of people who lack access could increase to 2.3 billion by 2025. And as many as 135 million people will die from water-related diseases by 2020 unless changes are made.

I pledge to be part of the change by supporting PlayPumps International clean water system.

Sincerely,
[Your name]
[Your address]

We signed the “Pledge to Bring Clean Water AND Children's Laughter to Rural Africa” petition!

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3:19 pm PST, Dec 19, Jennifer Martino, Spain

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4:07 pm PST, Dec 8, Sean Lanigan, New York

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11:42 am PST, Dec 5, Alisha Cuthrell, Michigan

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11:22 am PST, Dec 2, Aria Atreides, Illinois
Everybody needs clean water.

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7:12 am PST, Dec 1, Tom Jefferson, United Kingdom

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5:26 pm PST, Nov 30, Chrissy Bonello, Australia

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8:07 pm PST, Nov 26, Name not displayed, Maine

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1:19 pm PST, Nov 18, Mark Novotny, Illinois

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4:56 pm PST, Nov 14, Tyler Martin, Canada

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5:56 am PST, Nov 8, Simon Holmlund, Sweden
Clean water is not a luxury it is a nessesity.

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9:30 am PST, Nov 7, Joe Jordan-allen, Utah
Its so sad that the wealthy countries of the world find it more important to build skyscrapers, amusement parks, and other unnecessary things in their cities than to focus on bringing even basic living requirements to Africa and other 3rd world countries. This also goes for churches around the world that spend millions on lavish temples and cathedrals when that money could make all the difference in the world to people of Africa and other poverty stricken countries. I really don't understand how they can spend money so blindly, its sad!

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4:09 pm PST, Nov 6, Ines Faria, Portugal

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5:03 am PDT, Oct 26, Richard Retzer, Tennessee

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11:13 pm PDT, Oct 24, Sophie Szeferowicz, France

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1:36 pm PDT, Oct 24, Emma Seaman, United Kingdom
What a great idea! A playground toy that helps villages in Africa.

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1:49 pm PDT, Oct 23, Alexandrina Leitão, Portugal

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12:33 pm PDT, Oct 11, Katherine Ford, Mississippi

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11:37 am PDT, Oct 4, Austin Hulsey, Georgia

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6:30 am PDT, Sep 28, Michael Rabasco, Minnesota

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11:36 am PDT, Sep 26, Jason Turgeon, Maine
I wish I could take the money for war and give it to those who need help.

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10:27 pm PDT, Sep 24, Mystical Babe, Tennessee

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6:24 pm PDT, Sep 24, Viva Bader-Baker, Washington
Clean water Now in Africa

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7:34 pm PDT, Sep 17, Kyna Crain, Montana

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11:14 am PDT, Sep 17, Misty Blodgett, Montana

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1:20 am PDT, Sep 2, Kaytie Irvine, California

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6:15 pm PDT, Aug 31, Polly Odyssey, Missouri
Please buy ETHOS water

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6:59 pm PDT, Aug 30, Ken Schliesmann, Wisconsin

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