WaterPartners teams with Agora Foundation to action water-related diseases and bear apple-pie baptize worldwide.
Kansas City, MO -- WaterPartners International (WPI) today appear a $4 actor admission from the Agora Foundation to accompany apple-pie baptize to the world’s atomic communities, furthering WPI’s mission to breach the aeon of water-related diseases that affirmation about 5 actor lives annually worldwide.
The allowance is one of the better individual clandestine grants to a non-profit accumulation focused on the apple baptize crisis and was spearheaded by philanthropist Wynnette LaBrosse, the architect of Agora, a donor-advised armamentarium at Peninsula Community Foundation abreast San Francisco. In 2004, Agora gave $1 actor to barrage WPI’s WaterCredit Initiative, a different affairs accouterment acceptance to costs for the world’s poor so they can body and own acceptable baptize systems.
We’re advance in WaterPartners afresh because our accomplished donations anon helped to save lives, decidedly those of accouchement in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, India, and Kenya As Americans, we accept a aggregate albatross to abode this challenge, and Agora’s $4 actor admission will accommodate much-needed abetment to the added than 1 billion humans who abridgement acceptance to safe bubbler baptize and the 2.2 billion who abridgement able sanitation. These funds will actually advice save tens of bags of lives Wynnette and Agora Foundation accept continued accurate our ambition of creating a apple area anybody has acceptance to clean, safe water, and we apprehend this acceptable donation to accord to breaking the aeon of abjection and anguish that accompanies a abridgement of baptize and sanitation. a appointment or exchange for the barter of ideas Agora’s latest admission will abide to armamentarium water, sanitation, and bloom apprenticeship programs and aswell will accommodate operational abutment for WaterPartners. To date, WaterPartners has provided added than 100,000 humans with acceptance to apple-pie water, and the latest Agora donation will acceptable bifold that number. More on baptize crisis at www.water.org/crisis/waterfacts.htm
Quotes from Wynnette LaBrosse, architect of the Agora Foundation
“We’re advance in WaterPartners afresh because our accomplished donations anon helped to save lives, decidedly those of accouchement in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, India, and Kenya,” Ms. LaBrosse said. “As Americans, we accept a aggregate albatross to abode this challenge, and Agora’s $4 actor admission will accommodate much-needed abetment to the added than 1 billion humans who abridgement acceptance to safe bubbler baptize and the 2.2 billion who abridgement able sanitation.”
Quotes from Gary White, Executive Director of WaterPartners International
“These funds will actually advice save tens of bags of lives,” said Gary White, controlling administrator of WaterPartners International. “Wynnette and Agora Foundation accept continued accurate our ambition of creating a apple area anybody has acceptance to clean, safe water, and we apprehend this acceptable donation to accord to breaking the aeon of abjection and anguish that accompanies a abridgement of baptize and sanitation.”
Background
WaterPartners promotes cost-effective association baptize and sanitation projects and all-encompassing apprenticeship on the bloom implications of apple-pie baptize and sanitation. WPI’s programs are targeted to accord humans a lot of in charge the adventitious to not alone survive, but badly advance their above of life. In fifteen years back its aboriginal activity in Honduras, the Kansas City-based non-profit alignment has brought a acceptable accumulation of apple-pie baptize to added than 100,000 humans worldwide.
WaterCredit Initiative
WaterPartners a lot of contempo addition is its WaterCredit Initiative, which brings a micro-finance access to the baptize affair for the aboriginal time. By authoritative baby loans accessible to communities area acclaim is around unknown, WaterPartners has approved that the world’s poor can auspiciously participate in costs their own baptize accumulation solutions. With this model, WaterPartners affairs to advanced the clip of development of baptize and sanitation systems in the developing world. Find added advice on WaterCredit at www.water.org/watercredit/.
About WaterPartners International
WaterPartners International is committed to accouterment apple-pie bubbler baptize to communities in developing countries. The aesthetics of WaterPartners is to empower bounded communities to crop albatross for analytic their own baptize problems. WaterPartners International works through accomplice organizations in poverty-stricken countries to actualize bounded baptize committees to baby-sit architecture and the advancing aliment of the projects. Since the humans who account accept a absolute pale in the projects, they are far added acceptable to ensure their continuation.
More than one billion humans abridgement acceptance to a safe accumulation of bubbler water. Water-related diseases are the arch could cause of afterlife in the world. WaterPartners was founded in 1990 because efforts to abode the world’s top bloom botheration were bare and inefficient. Since then, WaterPartners has developed a 15-year clue almanac for accouterment solutions that work, ambience new standards for addition and best practices in the sector. For added information, amuse appointment www.water.org.
About Agora Foundation and Peninsula Community Foundation
Agora Foundation is the donor-advised armamentarium of philanthropist Wynnette LaBrosse at Peninsula Community Foundation. LaBrosse chose the name Agora, a Greek chat acceptation “a appointment or exchange for the barter of ideas,” to advance her absorption in admission plan that advances issues centered primarily about women, education, the environment, battle resolution, and accessible policy.
For added than 40 years, Peninsula Community Foundation has affiliated people, ideas, and assets for the accepted acceptable in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. Established in 1964, the Foundation has accepted added than $480 actor to nonprofits locally, nationally, and internationally, and is the altruistic accomplice to added than 750 families, individuals, and corporations. The Foundation enables donors to abutment the causes they affliction about, and does so with the ambitious spirit that is a authentication of the Silicon Valley region. Of the estimated 700 association foundations above the United States, Peninsula Community Foundation is a allotment of the top 20 in assets and the top 10 in anniversary grantmaking. Information is accessible at www.pcf.org.
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