Water / Hydrate Hope

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Do you realize that unclean water has the title of the #1 killer in the world? Unsafe and contaminated drinking water is killing thousands of men, women and children each and every day. Over 1.1 Billion people in our world have no access to clean water. That's nearly 1 out of every 6 people on our planet. More than 2 million people, mostly children, die each year from preventable waterborne illnesses. 2.6 Billion people are without basic sanitation. Many women and children walk 2 hours each way to fetch dirty water for their families. This creates an absence of time and energy necessary for education or small business. The heartbreaker...4 children die every minute...that means that every 15 seconds another child dies... this has to change! So, we are creating sustainable clean water solutions in places of desperate need around our world through Hydrate Hope.

Access to clean water not only helps quench a thirst and allows people to stay hydrated, it also helps cure diseases and reduces risks from further infections. Additionally, access to water enables irrigation projects for agricultural and livestock development. Water is truly a source of life. Clean water changes everything!

Human Trafficking / Set Hope Free

Human trafficking is a form of modern-day slavery. Victims of human trafficking are young children, teenagers, men and women. Approximately 800,000 to 900,000 victims annually are trafficked across international borders world wide. Many victims of human trafficking are forced to work in prostitution or the sex entertainment industry. But trafficking also occurs in forms of labor exploitation, such as domestic servitude, restaurant work, janitorial work, sweatshop factory work and migrant agricultural work.

After drug dealing, the trafficking of humans is tied with arms dealing as the second largest criminal industry in the world, and is the fastest growing. It is happening right here, right now; in our world, on our doorstep. It is devastating the lives of millions of men, women and children each year.

Hunger / Feed Hope

More than 854 million people in our world go hungry...every day. Each day, around 16,000 people (mostly children) die of hunger-related issues. In developing countries (more than 75% of our world) more than 6 million children die each year from hunger and its related issues. In developing countries, 11 million children die each year where 6 million is from hunger-related causes.

The reality: Hunger CAN end. We have the means, we just need to allocate them adequately. The UN Development Program estimates that an extra $13 Billion/year would provided basic health and nutrition needs for the poorest in our world. American and European pet owners spend more $ on pet food per year than this $ amount.

Whether it is in providing emergency aid relief or helping locals with agricultural projects, Feed Hope is striving to create sustainable hunger solutions that will allow people to feed themselves for generations to come.

Education / Educate Hope

For us in the western world, it is hard to believe that nearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names. That's almost 1 in every 6 people. And, a lack of access to equitable education continues to be a growing problem today.This stems from multiple variables both cultural and financial in nature. Millions of children are not allowed the privilege of education due to a lack of financial resources needed to provide uniforms, shoes, school supplies, and on a larger scale, school buildings. The means for survival in some communities, mean that children will bear the brunt of the labor needed for basic family needs. Such inequalities exclude millions of children, particularly girls, from school or condemn them to educational experiences of very poor quality.

Education enhances lives and is one of the primary tools needed to give children a chance at breaking the cycle of poverty for their own generation. By creating sustainable development, basic education will better equip girls and boys with knowledge and skills needed to adopt healthy lifestyles, to protect themselves from HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, and to take an active role in social, economic and political decision-making as they transition to adolescence and adulthood. As educated adults, they will be more equipped to pass on quality decision making processes to the generations they will be leading.

There is an old proverb that states, "give a child a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a child to fish and you feed him for a life".

Orphans

The numbers are staggering...More than 143 million orphans worldwide...every 14 seconds an AIDS death leaves another child orphaned...Many orphans and waiting children worldwide have lost their parents due to armed conflicts or diseases, such as Malaria, TB and AIDS. In some countries, however, children are increasingly abandoned at alarming rates due to poverty, restrictive population control policies, perceived disabilities, and cultural traditions that value some children over others.

Children who lose their parents, especially in the developing world, often face years of economic hardship, lack of love and affection, little education, abuse and risk of HIV infection, malnutrition and illness, stigma, discrimination, and isolation. Orphans without a support structure, have few means of supporting themselves and are often forced to work in commercial agriculture, as street vendors, in domestic service, and in the sex trade.