These children now have clean drinking water!

Thank you for your gift of clean water through the Trailblazer Foundation! One of the easiest ways to combat poverty and disease is to provide access to clean water sources. In Cambodia, village women and children are responsible for collecting water for the family, often from long distances. This can take up a good part of the day, leaving little time or energy to farm, cook, take care of family–especially the sick and elderly–clean, work for money outside the home, or go to school. By having a well near their home it provides young girls the free time to attend school. For these people, access to safe drinking water is the foundation upon which their health, education, food, livelihood, and gender equalization depends.

Karen and Christophe, your generosity supported two families like Tok Dav’s. Dav supports his family of seven (three females and four males) as a farmer. They live in a house made with palm leaf walls and have no modern form of transportation. With a oxcart and 3 cows they farm their 1 hectare rice field and can grow 2,500 kilograms of extra rice to store it for the season. They have one pig and six chickens to augment their food securities. Dav is very happy that his family has safe water to drink. His children will grow up healthier and stronger and will be able to stay in school because they won’t be sick from bad water. Thanks again for giving the gift that keeps on giving.