Leave a Legacy: Burn for Water

Every $100 = 20 people accessing clean water for upwards of 20 years! How many more people can we supply clean water for?

Villagers were asked what the benefit has been for them after just one year of having a well on a village.

One mother simply said, "None of my children died this year."70% of all illnesses in Ghana are caused by unsafe water and sanitation issues. Young girls spend upwards of 6 hours a day walking to collect water. Meaning they are not in classrooms learning.

Let's work together to fund another well in 2022! Please continue to share and donate.

***Here's Our Chance to Leave a Legacy***

Since 2018, Burner donations to this GoFundMe have built 7 clean water wells in Ghana! I'd love for 2022 to be the year we fund building our 8th well!

My Personal Why: I didn't realize how powerful leaving a legacy was until 2017 when I attended AfrikaBurn, the regional arts festival in the South African desert. It was in the wee hours of the morning, sitting under a red beduin tent while sipping South African boxes wine at sunrise, that I engaged in philosophical conversations with AfrikaBurn founders Paul Fletcher, Paul Jorgensen, and Robert Weinek.

In those morning hours we discussed, "What comes next, from Leave No Trace?" The environmental stewardship concept to leave no discernible trace behind after an event to all extents possible. It was a principle we had all followed for years. But under that tent, these beautiful, gritty influencers had a remarkable new intention: Leave a Legacy.

For AfrikaBurn it looked like this: their outreach program saved plywood from dismantled camps and build outbuildings for a local school; collected leftover non-perishable food and stock an orphanage's pantry. "We have so much," they all agreed.

Then in the summer of 2018, I met a then eleven year old girl named Josie, from Seattle Washington area, who at age nine, raised $10,000 to build her first well in Ghana. She created her own non-profit, Josie's Well, in partnership with the local non-profit Water Access Now, and now at age eleven, Josie realized her vision. I decided right then, if eleven year old Josie can do it, WE can do this!

The How: Your simple way of participating is key to making this happen.

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PS: Josie's Well and Water Access Now are volunteer-run and committed to transparency, passing donations directly onto building wells in Ghana. Water Access Now has a sustainability plan in place so that wells don’t just get built and left in nonfunctional disrepair, and it includes community & civic investment & involvement. Your tax-deductible donation goes directly to the charity.