Hydrate Hope
Hydrate Hope is the first global project of I Am Change that began out of asking the question, "with so many needs in the world, where can we begin to make a difference". Our answer...start with the biggest. With water being the #1 killer in the world, our passion is to engage this preventable global atrocity head on. Over 1.1 Billion people in our world have no access to clean water. That's basically 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 over than 2 hours each way to often fetch more than 40lbs of 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....we want this to change. This has to change!
We dream of seeing millions of lives changed by providing access to clean water, adequate sanitation and hygiene education. HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other life-threatening diseases will look radically different as clean water becomes available to help build healthy immune systems. Poverty will begin to change as people can devote less time and energy to transporting water and more time to strengthen micro-enterprise. Education will look different as children, primarily girls, will spend less time trekking to distant, unclean water sources and more time in school.
Whether we are digging new wells or repairing old wells, Hydrate Hope is not only striving to prevent the daily loss of more than 25,000 precious lives through providing access to clean water, but to enhance life around the world. Water brings life. Water is hope. Water changes everything.
Join us in bringing hope to the lives of those who really need it!
Set Hope Free
LAUNCHING FALL 2008!
Slavery. Bondage. Human Trafficking.
Set Hope Free is a project that is launching in response to the overwhelming need of people in bondage and slavery around our globe. Each and every day, thousands of people, mostly women and children, are stolen or sold and forced to work in various forms of slavery against their will.
Every night thousands of young girls will find themselves working in brothels and only have pain and scars to show for their years of servitude. Every morning boys and girls wake up to reality of their shackled ankles as they get back to work in factories and sweatshops they never chose to work in. The unpaid financial debt of their parents often forces this slavery upon the children. In the developing world, millions of women and men find themselves working in prostitution because they have no skill set, education or other option. But the reality is there are options.
Set Hope Free is working to set these captives free through rescue and restoration. Through advocacy and action, we are creating an awareness that is putting pressure on governments to take notice of what is happening in their own backyards. We are creating micro-economic projects that are giving women opportunities to create and utilize skill-sets to make an honorable living. And, through front-line partnerships, we are rescuing women and children from the snares of evil-doers all throughout our world.
Join the movement and Set Hope Free!
Feed Hope
LAUNCHING EARLY 2009!
Relief. Sustainability.
Feed Hope is answering the cries of the millions in our world who are starving each and every day. The global hunger crisis is growing larger and more work is needed to help create sustainable responses to this preventable atrocity. Feed Hope is not only providing immediate emergency response through food aid, but specifically working with local farmers on strategic agricultural projects that utilize the best in productivity and economic stimulation.
"Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, Feed Hope."