Changing Lives
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Chinese Proverb
To achieve this, one must first aim to understand the needs of the people and embrace their visions of a sustainable future. Working with them all to ensure dreams do become a reality for future generations.
All of our projects providing, water and preventative healthcare, have been focussed on giving individuals, families and communities the power and the basic tools to take ownership and change their own lives and destiny’s.
Water For Africa maintains too, that to change one life can also dramatically change your own. There has never been a time in history, when there has been such a stark diversity in the world between the rich and poor. So there has never been such a perfect time in history, for so few to change the lives of so many.
- In the developed world today, the richest 10% hold 85% of global household wealth.
- The top 1% own 40% of global assets and the richest 2% more than half of all the global assets.
- Meanwhile, the bottom half of the world's population own barely 1% of the wealth.
It is timely to focus on sharing our good fortunes of where we were born, with the poorest in the world, who are geographically disadvantaged because of where they were born.
Involving yourselves in our mission, will change the lives of many people as well as your own. Whether it is through, your own donations, fund-raising or working within the projects. You will see and feel the life changing benefits.
After all ..........
What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other? George Elliott
