SAVE UKRAINIAN LIVES. GIVE CLEAN WATER.

This is our emergency fundraiser for Ukraine. 
Our goal is to raise $10,000 for 300 water filtration systems, providing 20,000 gallons of clean water a day for 3,000 Ukrainians immediately. 
I'm Lindsey Leavitt  kidlit author and Director of Donor Outreach at Water for Life Charity. My husband, James Brown, began working on humanitarian water projects in 2010 and became President of Water for Life Charity in 2017. Our trusted, registered 501(c)(3) charity specializes in distributing water filtration solutions in developing countries. We are also on the ground as soon as possible for disaster relief.

 

 

(Tanzania Project with Roam Humanitarian)

 

THE PROBLEM:

After placing 30,000 water filters in over twenty-three countries, few conditions shock us. We’ve brought filters to hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico, livestock-contaminated African watering holes, and cholera-riddled Yemen. But the destructive war-time atrocities found in modernized Ukraine presents devastation incomprehensible in scope.

 

In a country of forty-four million people, it is presently estimated over twelve million Ukrainian refugees have fled to neighboring countries or are refugees within their own borders. Of those twelve million, UNICEF estimates that “over six million people in Ukraine are struggling every day to have drinking water, one of the most essential human needs.” Six million.

 

Water supplies are cut off and acts of war have caused sewage and drinking water to mix, dramatically increasing the risk of waterborne illnesses, such as cholera. As this enormous crisis continues, we find the most vulnerable to be at greatest risk of death. “Young children who live in conflict zones are 20 times more likely to die from diarrheal diseases linked to unsafe water than from direct violence, as a result of war,” said UNICEF Ukraine Representative, Murat Sahin. “Their access to water, wherever they are, must not be jeopardized as a result of war – for children, it is a matter of life and death.”

 

(Water for Life's Rudy Schaffer sampling water in Cambodian Floating Village)

 

THE SOLUTION:

Our organization is 100% volunteer-based and unhampered by supply or bureaucratic issues. We have multiple carrier teams flying water filtration supplies to struggling Ukrainians. We work to personally deliver our filters through trusted volunteers, who also provide education for proper use. Our efforts today will make a direct and pivotal impact for generations.

 

 

(Lindsey Leavitt and volunteer transporting supplies into Ukraine)

 

YOUR DONATION'S IMPACT:

 

For only $50, Water for Life Charity can provide clean drinking water for ten people for three to five years. Donations are tax-deductible.

 

$50 – 1 Filter + 2 Buckets = 100 Gallons of Clean Water a Day 

$250 – 5 Filters + 10 Buckets = 500 Gallons of Clean Water a Day 

$1,000 – 20 Filters + 40 Buckets = 1,000 Gallons of Clean Water a Day

$5,000 – 100 Filters + 200 Buckets = 10,000 Gallons of Clean Water a Day

$25,000 – 500 Filters + 1,000 Buckets = 50,000 Gallons of Clean Water a Day

$75,000 –1,500 Filters + 3,000 Buckets = 150,000 Gallons of Clean Water a Day

 

We are seeking additional funds to purchase filters for distribution in southern civilian areas without clean water, including Kryvyi Rih, Mykolaiv, and Zaporizhzhia. Our supplier has over 10,000 filters ready to ship once the funds become available. We are working to send bi-monthly shipments. We recently sent a carrier with two hundred water filters, along with other much needed medical supplies donated by other organizations. We will continue to expand this model.

 

Please consider joining our efforts to relieve the suffering of Ukrainian people. Thank you for coming together as a world community to help save lives!