Thirst Project

As a water organization with a mission to build sustainable water projects around the globe, our main goal is to continue working alongside the staff/nationals that live in the countries that we work in (i.e. Kingdom of eSwatini, Kenya, Uganda, and El Salvador) to build and maintain water projects and serve as many individuals as possible in these developing communities.

If we achieve universal access to clean water and sanitation & hygiene, we could reduce the global disease burden by 10%. Clean water also plays an incredibly critical role in effectively treating and managing HIV/AIDS in rural communities. The Kingdom of Eswatini, for example, has the single-highest-density population of HIV/AIDS in the world. For a person with HIV/AIDS, even if you have access to medical treatment or antiretroviral medication, but are still forced to drink dirty water from contaminated sources, the diseases in the water you drink will actually kill you faster than AIDS itself.
Women and children spend on average six to eight hours each day walking to fetch water. The average distance that women and children in developing communities walk to fetch water is 3.75 miles. The time children spend collecting water keeps them from going to school and getting an education.
Together, this generation, everyone alive today WILL be the ones to end this. WE will be the ones to push the water crisis into the history books.

To accomplish our goal of ending the global water crisis, we have rallied young people, in partnership with Legacy Youth Leadership, to educate and activate around this global issue. We believe that young people are THE most powerful agents for social change in the world and that no other group activates like they do. Since we began educating students about the global water crisis in 2008, the response and initiative of students to take action on this issue has been AMAZING! We know that STUDENTS will change the world! Students are not afraid to dream, and we are only limited by what society tells us. Over half of the United States is enrolled in some type of schooling. Imagine if every single student responded and activated around the global water crisis.

When a student gains perspective on an issue as big as the global water crisis, amazing things happen! In just 13 years, we have spoken to over 500,000 students, and STUDENTS have been the driving force in helping us raise over 11 million dollars, giving clean water to 13 different countries and over 500,000 people. In continued partnership with Legacy Youth Leadership, we will increase our student outreach to yield even greater awareness and fundraising to end the global water crisis.