Franciscan Youth - H20 Project - Can you do it?

THE PROBLEM: • Women and children walk 2 hours each way to fetch water (hauling dirty water back to their families.) They have no time or energy left for education or small business, and many of them die. • Preventable water related diseases kill one child every 15 seconds. That's 8,000 every day (and that's just the children). Imagine if that many precious ones were dying in the U.S.! THE SOLUTION: • Take the H2O Challenge!• For 2 weeks make water your only beverage. • Contribute the money you would have spent at the soda machine and coffee shop toward the drilling of clean water wells. • Is it a sacrifice to give up your milk, coffee, soda, etc. for 2 weeks? • Will you be changing someone else's life forever? Absolutely.• What does The H2O Project get out of it? Financially, absolutely nothing, but they get the joy of knowing they have helped you (and many like you) make a difference.THE PROCESS: • Go online for more information at www.theh2oproject.org and log onto http://homepage.mac.com/michaelnanfria/H2O/iMovieTheater86.html for a 5.5 minute impact video! Once you see it, you will be changed forever!• Pick one 14-day period during Lent.• Follow the instructions. For a letter to use in your fraternity or parish, click here (MS Word document)• Email (or mail-see address below) Kathy at kltsfo@frontiernet.net to let her know you have accepted the challenge; you must list your Fraternity and Region.• Start fasting…start saving…save the children!