Millennium Child Support Group

What if the gift you make today could actually make a lasting difference? What if you could do more than simply save lives...what if it could change them? Forever.

Clean water is essential for life, but one in eight of the world's population does not have access to it.

This, and lack of safe sanitation, result in 1.4 million children dying from water-related diseases every year.

The lack of clean water means millions of women and children spend hours each day searching for water and carrying it home.  This exhausting task can cause damage to their heads, necks and spines, and leaves them with little time for productive work or education.

Clean water changes lives. Girls return to school. Women begin small businesses. Men are no longer too sick to work. Fields are watered and food supply becomes more reliable. Health returns and children grow up to be productive members of their community. The cycle of poverty is broken and lives change. "When water comes…everything changes." And we see the change every time a new well brings clean water. Clean water isn't an end…it's a means more than you could imagine.

When the poor and needy seek water, I will open rivers on the bare heights, and fountains in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.    -- Isaiah 41: 17-18