To learn of life-changing projects that a donation to UNICEF can help support, watch this short video about a project to bring clean water to one village in Nicaragua. The well has had an enormous impact on the health, daily lives and futures of the whole community. 

What a child drinks is a matter of life and death. Their bodies contain more water, use more water and are able to conserve less water than adults.

In many developing nations, children drink dirty, germ-ridden water and suffer intense diarrhea, dehydration, then death.

Through Wednesday, your donation to support UNICEF’s programs will be matched $1 for $1 by Clean Water Match. And UNICEF will mail to you a water bottle for a donation of $35 or more.

Donate online by Wednesday, March 21 and your gift will be matched, dollar for dollar, by a group of anonymous donors thanks.

783 million people live without access to safe water, and around 2.5 billion people – lack access to improved sanitation.

But we can help, with UNICEF, to improve water supplies and sanitation in schools and communities and promoting safe hygiene practices for children around the world.

The impact of poor sanitation, water and hygiene can have serious effects you might not expect – especially for girls. Girls are often denied their right to education because their schools lack private and decent sanitation facilities. Or they drop out of school because they are forced to spend large parts of their day fetching water for their families.

Without clean and safe water and sanitation, combined with proper hygiene practices, children suffer.

Please join me in helping UNICEF to save children from drinking unsafe water. Our donations will be doubled by a group of anonymous donors thanks to our Clean Water Match.

The plan, based on the task force’s study of what other cities had done, was embraced by political and civic leaders.

Zev Yaroslavsky, of the County Board of Supervisors, said, “This is not rocket science. It’s been done in New York, it’s been done in Atlanta, and it’s been done in San Francisco.”

I didn’t know that New York, Atlanta, and San Francisco have no homeless residents.

Richard Bloom, the mayor of Santa Monica, said,  “Do I think it can happen? Yes, because I’ve seen what happens in other cities, like New York City, Denver and Boston.”

Does that mean that New York, Denver and Boston have no homeless residents?

The Los Angeles City Controller, Wendy Greuel, said, “It’s easy to get up in the morning, go to work, drive home and never encounter someone who is homeless.  I don’t think it’s seeped into the public’s consciousness that homelessness is a problem.”

…As an AmeriCorps member, you can address community needs in education, the environment, public safety, social services, homeland security, and other areas.

We also serve in national nonprofit organizations like Habitat for Humanity, American Red Cross, Teach for America, and hundreds of smaller community organizations, secular and faith-based.

Whether your service makes a community safer, gives a child a second chance, alleviates poverty, or helps to protect our environment, you have the ability to find solutions and make a difference.  Care to join AmeriCorps? . list of Florida programs