From the field: country life in Amhara, Ethiopia.
Amhara, Ethiopia. I arrive in Ethiopia’s Amhara region after rainy season has just swept through. The fields are lush smears of gold and emerald. Every piece of land seems to be covered in a crop. In...
View ArticleRecognizing women in the water crisis.
Today is International Women’s Day. We’re taking a minute to celebrate some of the women of this past year — specifically, some amazing daughters, mothers and grandmothers we met in November 2011 while...
View ArticleYou funded a drilling rig… and now, it’s going to work!
In September 2011, we asked you to help fund charity: water’s first drilling rig to bring clean water to 40,000 new people every year in rural Ethiopia. More than 1,400 mycharity: water fundraisers...
View ArticleOne Day Without Shoes.
TOMS is celebrating One Day Without Shoes.So… take ‘em off! Today, our friends at TOMS asked everyone they knew to kick off their heels or sneakers to help spread awareness about millions of children...
View ArticleIntroducing… Yellow Thunder!
Thousands of you joined us last September and helped fund our first drilling rig. Then, in March, we were thrilled to share with you that the rig drilled its first well in Ethiopia! At charity: water,...
View ArticleCapital costs: the tools to accelerate change.
This September, we’re funding our first ever drilling rig. We want to take a minute to explain how this is a departure from what we usually do — fund programs to construct or rehabilitate individual...
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