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.

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.

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