Many Sri Lankans suffer health complications and death as the result of chronic kidney disease (also known as CKD) each year. The north and east of the island are the worst affected areas as the people living there are reliant on agricultural produce (rice farming in particular).

A few years ago, CKD was identified in these areas; however, the root cause of its prevalence in this region has not been clearly explained to date. Unfiltered water is one of the main causes of CKD. Only about 35% of the island's population has access to the public water network, the remainder (particularly those in rural areas) are reliant on groundwater, which can have fatal health implications. These local regions are therefore in urgent need of water filer systems.

The purpose of the project is to donate a Purified Drinking Water System to School.

Senehase Arunella

Please chip in to help raise money for Waves for Water. 

One Drop At A Time!

We are raising money to provide END-to-END transparency in for direct humanitarian aid. By sharing re-cap videos of missions trips, live streams, and social media stories. In the villages, will share testimonies of the beautiful people we have assisted along the way. We emphasise end-to-end because we want your monetary or volunteered donation to be trackable. Our foundation bridges humanitarian aid with entertaining that you can tune into and watch your efforts helps change the world.•We are SOAKED to share our journey with you! Dropping a pebble into water; makes ripples, ripples make waves & waves will move mountains.#geteveryonesoaked stoked to get soaked,Mitchell MacKichan

Soaked Foundation #soakedecuador

Help us reach our goal of $500 to donate to Waves for Water. 

One Drop At A Time

We are the Love Foundation CPT hub. 

Love Foundation is an open network of artists and activists. Together we organise projects to spread love, connect people and fundraise money for water development projects within our communities of Cape Town, South Africa. 

We as Love Foundation envision a world where Water is for All. 

Water, much like love, is something humans struggle to live without. While statistics for people lacking love are curiously not available, we are aware that currently 1 out of every 10 people does not have access to safe water; four times as many have no safe sanitary infrastructure (toilets). 

Home; Cape Town, South Africa, has been ridden with inequality of classes, leaving many families and communities with poor living conditions and without access to basic living standards, in particular access to Clean Drinkable Water. 

Love Foundation aims to combat this problem with a philosophy and modus operandi of love. Water is life. Therefore, our mission next to spreading love, is to enable the very poorest to feel joy, create long-lasting communities and families, by helping them to attain clean access to the most important resource in life: Water.

Love Foundation // Water4All Cape Town Edition 

We all need fresh clean water, and most of us have got it. But what about the rest of us on the planet. 

How can we help others. 

A group of us have come together to work on spreading the message of "clean water for all" through developing "businesses for good". 

TOGETHER WE RISE

Event: A 1.5 and 10 nautical mile paddle on your human-powered watercraft of choice! The 2019 event will be on Lake Norman, NC on World Oceans Day ~ Saturday, June 8th!

We are everyday people who care deeply about our oceans, marine environments, and onshore freshwater waterways. We are paddling to raise money for two initiatives: 1) Single-use plastic awareness via The Surfrider Foundation’s Rise Above Plastics initiative and 2) Contributing to natural disaster relief efforts in the Caribbean (Caribbean Hurricane Relief Initiative) by getting clean water to those in need via Waves4Water’s Clean Water initiative. 

Through the collaboration with the The Surfrider Foundation Charlotte Capter, we aim to educate, and therefore empower our communities around the longevity and abundance of plastics and what they are doing to natural waterways and global marine environments.

So why does this matter for you outside of environmental conservation...
Plastics are entering the food chain! Plastic does not biodegrade, they just break apart into smaller pieces over time in marine environments. The smaller pieces the enter the food chain through plankton which mistake micro plastics for food in both fresh water and salt water. Plankton is the primary food source for many aquatic organisms, specifically fish and whales, and therefore plastics move up the food chain. They also are mistakenly eaten by turtles and birds which can create intestinal blockage, suffocation and ultimately have caused starvation. 

https://www.paddlelkn.org

PaddleLKN 2019

Hundreds of thousands displaced, needing medical aid, shelter, clothing, food, and clean water. It will take years to rebuild and recover. Sukabumi West Javaw needs our help!

Victims of Sukabumi Landslide

Cast & Crew from SSW Of The Border Movie 

Artistic foundation from SSW Of The Border 

"...I'm trying to leave the places I pass through a little bit better than I found them" - Jon Rose, Waves for Water founder

This fundraiser is completely out of my comfort zone - on so many levels - but what better way to start a year of solo travel around the world with something that pushes me beyond my known limits?! To be frank, I haven't been contributing much to non-profits other than the Red Cross over the past few years, so to select a foundation was somewhat cumbersome.

I spent time reading, researching, discussing + contemplating the appropriate non-profit to fundraise for... and then as fate has it, my neighbor told me about something his friend started, Waves for Water, while hanging out on my final evening as a San Clemente resident.

With further research and contemplation (naturally), as well as watching video after video they produced about their efforts (and the subsequent waterworks, no pun intended;), I am honored to raise awareness and funds for W4W. Through grassroots efforts, W4W aids in delivering clean + sustainable water to areas lacking access. They also provide relief for natural disasters worldwide and travel to local communities to help them rebuild and rebound.

It is my intention to volunteer with them while I'm on the road! In the meantime, though, I hope to support the regions of the world I'll be traveling to, which don't often have access to clean water (i.e. Nepal, India, Indonesia, Burma, etc.).

Of course, no pressure to donate, but I've been blessed with this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to travel and broaden my horizons, and your support for me would be evident through extending it to W4W :)

Much love and all the blessings to you + your loved ones! Shanti shanti!

Cheers,
MK

Cheers! To Clean Water... to Adventure... to Life!

This holiday, give the gift of water.

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