Children throughout Mindanao Province in the Philippines are sick and dying… yet the clean water that can save their lives remains just beneath their feet.

If the thought of young children drinking water gathered from ditches and ponds where oxen and dogs bathe makes you feel sick, imagine how the children feel.

Life-threatening diseases, like dysentery, are ravaging the Lumad people of Mindanao Province in the Philippines. In addition to being incredibly poor, the Lumad do not have access to clean water.

Right now, Lumad children are sick and wasting away by the thousands. Sadly, for many of these children it’s simply too late. They are now at rest beneath the ground they would be playing on today if help had arrived in time.

Here’s what makes this situation even more heartbreaking...

Clean water - enough to serve the villages of Mindanao for years to come - is just beneath the feet of the Lumad people and their precious children.

What a tragedy! People are sick and dying simply because they lack the knowledge and relatively modest financial resources needed in order to bring the clean water to the surface.

Friend, the Lumad people need your help right now, especially the children...

Despite our best efforts - thankfully, we’ve been able to bring clean water to tens of thousands of people so far - we’ve not been able to keep pace with the need. Right now, there are thousands more in urgent need of clean water, many of whom are at risk of becoming deathly ill or dying.

You can hand a child their first-ever glass of clean water to drink by giving today…

Each water system costs $10,000… and with the average size of a village being 1,000 people… that’s just $60 per family of six people. Clean water for life, for just $60!

A gift of just $60 will make it possible for one family to receive the clean water they so desperately need. A generous gift of $120 will help two families!

Here’s what your gift today will do for a Lumad village…

- Excavate an underground water spring full of clean water.

- Build a sturdy concrete container to collect and protect the water at the source of the spring so it can be piped to a larger storage reservoir.

- Construct a large concrete above-ground reservoir to store the clean water so it can be distributed to families.

- Finally, build a modest distribution system that will bring the clean water to distribution points in the village.

Of all the work your gift will accomplish, the most important aspect is saving lives!

Friend, what other use of $60 or $120 has the power to dramatically transform lives and save children from suffering and death…

Clean water is the beginning of a new life for the people of Mindanao. And your gift today is the beginning of their hope for a much brighter future.

Clean water, in abundant supply, will make it possible for families to improve and protect their health, save their children from needless suffering, grow nutritious vegetables in small, irrigated gardens, and focus on improving every aspect of village life.

Please consider the children who are suffering and dying simply because their village is too poor to access the clean water that flows right beneath their village… beneath their sick bed.

Friend, your gift today will make it possible for families, especially children, to drink their first glass of clean water and in doing so, take their first step toward a brand new life full of hope and promise.

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