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Ram’s Life in Svay Leu, Cambodia
January 2022
Ram returns home to her small hut every night after spending her days searching for odd agricultural jobs to patch together a living. As a single mother, she has two children who depend on her entirely.
And every evening Ram heads back out the door with a water container slung over her shoulder, headed to the community pond across the village to gather water in the dark.
“I wish there was water close to my home so I didn’t have to walk far for water after working all day,” said Ram.
Ram’s village of Rohal in Svay Leu, Cambodia shares one large community pond. It is wide and marshy when the rains come, and it is shared by so many people and livestock that the water is very unsafe to drink.
But, no one in the community has a choice. The only alternative is to purchase expensive bottled water, and for a single mother like Ram this isn’t an option. Instead, she has to do the best she can to care for her children when they get sick from the water.
“My daughter often gets stomach aches and has to come home from school,” said Ram. “Then she is absent from school for several days.”
Ram hopes to have safe water one day, so that her children can attend school healthy and uninterrupted.
“My hope is that my children will be able to study so they can find a better path than mine,” said Ram.
Your gift of safe water empowers hardworking parents like Ram to care for their families and have hope for their children’s future.
Lifewater also partners with local churches in Cambodia to provide sanitation and hygiene training, using community spaces to bring the hope of Jesus along with safe water.
When you give, you give safe water, improved health, and the hope of Jesus to communities like Ram’s in Cambodia.
About Cambodia
Cambodia is home to an estimated 16 million people, where 76% of the population live with limited to no access to safe water.
Around 1 in 3 people, or 32% of the population, do not have a sanitary toilet so they go outside in the open. This creates an ongoing public health crisis, coupled with the fact that 34% of Cambodians do not have a hand washing facility with soap and water.
Lifewater’s vision is not just “safe water for every child,” but also “the love of Christ for all.” For over 40 years, this call to action has propelled a relentless commitment to serving others as Jesus would. It’s with this commitment to serving as the hands and feet of Jesus that Lifewater is adopting a new “church first” approach in Northern Cambodia.
This pilot approach prioritizes reconciliation and community relations. It acknowledges the generations of trauma brought on by the Cambodian genocide of the 1970s, and it seeks to foster trust within communities, a building block to progress.
Today, Lifewater teams are at work identifying existing churches and church organizations within the country. Afterwards, they’ll provide training, capacity building, and WASH programming. Each church will adopt one village, nurturing their neighbors with the love of Jesus and the results of improved sanitation and hygiene.
Give safe water to Cambodia today.
Your gift will help bring the good news of Jesus as well as life-saving sanitation and hygiene practices to Northern Cambodia.
Yes! You can expect regular updates on progress in Northern Cambodia. Lifewater is just beginning a “church first” approach, and we’ll update you as milestones and stories of transformation arrive.
Lifewater has local staff that live and serve among the communities and schools where Lifewater works. Our staff know the language and the culture and are best equipped to serve communities. Because we seek to ensure sustainable water projects and community buy in, we do not allow donors to visit the projects they sponsor. However, we do commit to sending real-time updates, photos, and stories from the projects themselves.
With more than 40 years’ experience, LIfewater is the longest-running Christian clean water charity in North America. Over those 40 years, Lifewater has worked in more than 45 different countries. Currently, our work is focused in Sub-Saharan Africa (Ethiopia, Uganda, and Tanzania) and Southeast Asia (Cambodia).
Lifewater identifies countries and regions that are unreached and underserved with basic water access and sanitation, which means we focus on areas where other organizations are not serving.
Although great strides have been made in the past 20 years to solve the global water crisis, remote and rural populations still remain unreached with adequate water and sanitation. These distant regions are difficult and often costly for governments and NGOs to serve well. Many of these communities feel as though they have been forgotten.
Currently, Lifewater has programs in Ethiopia, Uganda, Tanzania, and Cambodia. You can go to lifewater.org/projects to select a specific water project to help. Because our programs are regionalized and made in partnership with the local governments, we are not able to take requests for specific water projects outside of our existing programs.
Lifewater budgets 80% of expenditures for programs. The remaining 20% is split between administrative/management and fundraising expenses. This ratio is best in class for nonprofits and is why Lifewater has received the highest rating from Charity Navigator.
Administrative/management expenses are used to ensure that we are effective in managing the funds entrusted to us and include the following types of expenses: accounting personnel, leadership time, professional development of staff, external auditors, legal counsel, government registration expenses in every U.S. state, credit card fees for processing donations, bank fees, database maintenance, and office expenses.
Fundraising expenses generate the income needed to do the work that we set out to do. These include the cost of direct mail appeals and communication, marketing projects, donor relations personnel, and email communication systems. Last year, every dollar invested into Lifewater fundraising efforts resulted in $10 of donation for the organization.
Over our 40 year history, Lifewater has received the highest accreditations from the most respected rating organization in the industry. Lifewater is recognized as one of the top-rated charities in the United States by independent reporting organizations, including:
Charity Navigator (four stars)
Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA)
Guidestar (Platinum)
Great Nonprofits (five star)
Excellence in Giving
Learn more at https://lifewater.org/top-rated-charity.
Lifewater’s work is founded on the belief that every person is made in the image of God. It is with this conviction that we seek out the globe’s most unreached, marginalized people groups in need of safe water.
Both nationally and internationally, 100 percent of our staff are Christians. These Christian staff help facilitate Lifewater’s Healthy Church strategy in communities. And, where there are no churches, we work with church planting partners to start new churches.
To create Healthy Churches, Lifewater first trains church leaders in foundational theology. These leaders are equipped with the basic story of the Christian faith and the biblical mandate to love others. Leaders learn that stopping the spread of disease and caring for the vulnerable aligns with our responsibility as Christians to love our neighbor.
Second, Lifewater ensures churches have safe bathrooms on their premises, handwashing stations, clean water nearby, and the education to promote health within their congregations. It’s imperative that churches are early adopters of healthy hygiene practices.
Third, Lifewater encourages churches to help vulnerable households become Healthy Homes. Church leaders undergo a training to become WASH (water access, sanitation, and hygiene) advocates in their communities. These advocates are encouraged to identify widows, child-headed households, the elderly, and the disabled to help them meet the health standards of Lifewater’s programs.
Lifewater’s Vision of a Healthy Village strategy is a relationship-first method. This model transforms entire regions house by house, village by village, and school by school. It is among the most intensive household-level work happening in the entire developing world and is closely tracked for progress, sustainability, and overall impact.
We construct custom-engineered safe water sources and teach life-saving health and sanitation practices in local villages and schools in need.
“We are confident Lifewater’s work will have life-sustaining impact.”
– Cary A. Paine, The Stewardship Foundation
Story
Your gift provides a clean water source, health training, and hope to mothers like Ram in Cambodia.
Ram’s Life in Svay Leu, Cambodia
January 2022
Ram returns home to her small hut every night after spending her days searching for odd agricultural jobs to patch together a living. As a single mother, she has two children who depend on her entirely.
And every evening Ram heads back out the door with a water container slung over her shoulder, headed to the community pond across the village to gather water in the dark.
“I wish there was water close to my home so I didn’t have to walk far for water after working all day,” said Ram.
Ram’s village of Rohal in Svay Leu, Cambodia shares one large community pond. It is wide and marshy when the rains come, and it is shared by so many people and livestock that the water is very unsafe to drink.
But, no one in the community has a choice. The only alternative is to purchase expensive bottled water, and for a single mother like Ram this isn’t an option. Instead, she has to do the best she can to care for her children when they get sick from the water.
“My daughter often gets stomach aches and has to come home from school,” said Ram. “Then she is absent from school for several days.”
Ram hopes to have safe water one day, so that her children can attend school healthy and uninterrupted.
“My hope is that my children will be able to study so they can find a better path than mine,” said Ram.
Your gift of safe water empowers hardworking parents like Ram to care for their families and have hope for their children’s future.
Lifewater also partners with local churches in Cambodia to provide sanitation and hygiene training, using community spaces to bring the hope of Jesus along with safe water.
When you give, you give safe water, improved health, and the hope of Jesus to communities like Ram’s in Cambodia.
Cambodia
About Cambodia
Cambodia is home to an estimated 16 million people, where 76% of the population live with limited to no access to safe water.
Around 1 in 3 people, or 32% of the population, do not have a sanitary toilet so they go outside in the open. This creates an ongoing public health crisis, coupled with the fact that 34% of Cambodians do not have a hand washing facility with soap and water.
Lifewater’s vision is not just “safe water for every child,” but also “the love of Christ for all.” For over 40 years, this call to action has propelled a relentless commitment to serving others as Jesus would. It’s with this commitment to serving as the hands and feet of Jesus that Lifewater is adopting a new “church first” approach in Northern Cambodia.
This pilot approach prioritizes reconciliation and community relations. It acknowledges the generations of trauma brought on by the Cambodian genocide of the 1970s, and it seeks to foster trust within communities, a building block to progress.
Today, Lifewater teams are at work identifying existing churches and church organizations within the country. Afterwards, they’ll provide training, capacity building, and WASH programming. Each church will adopt one village, nurturing their neighbors with the love of Jesus and the results of improved sanitation and hygiene.
Give safe water to Cambodia today.
FAQ's
Your gift will help bring the good news of Jesus as well as life-saving sanitation and hygiene practices to Northern Cambodia.
Yes! You can expect regular updates on progress in Northern Cambodia. Lifewater is just beginning a “church first” approach, and we’ll update you as milestones and stories of transformation arrive.
Lifewater has local staff that live and serve among the communities and schools where Lifewater works. Our staff know the language and the culture and are best equipped to serve communities. Because we seek to ensure sustainable water projects and community buy in, we do not allow donors to visit the projects they sponsor. However, we do commit to sending real-time updates, photos, and stories from the projects themselves.
With more than 40 years’ experience, LIfewater is the longest-running Christian clean water charity in North America. Over those 40 years, Lifewater has worked in more than 45 different countries. Currently, our work is focused in Sub-Saharan Africa (Ethiopia, Uganda, and Tanzania) and Southeast Asia (Cambodia).
Lifewater identifies countries and regions that are unreached and underserved with basic water access and sanitation, which means we focus on areas where other organizations are not serving.
Although great strides have been made in the past 20 years to solve the global water crisis, remote and rural populations still remain unreached with adequate water and sanitation. These distant regions are difficult and often costly for governments and NGOs to serve well. Many of these communities feel as though they have been forgotten.
Currently, Lifewater has programs in Ethiopia, Uganda, Tanzania, and Cambodia. You can go to lifewater.org/projects to select a specific water project to help. Because our programs are regionalized and made in partnership with the local governments, we are not able to take requests for specific water projects outside of our existing programs.
Lifewater budgets 80% of expenditures for programs. The remaining 20% is split between administrative/management and fundraising expenses. This ratio is best in class for nonprofits and is why Lifewater has received the highest rating from Charity Navigator.
Administrative/management expenses are used to ensure that we are effective in managing the funds entrusted to us and include the following types of expenses: accounting personnel, leadership time, professional development of staff, external auditors, legal counsel, government registration expenses in every U.S. state, credit card fees for processing donations, bank fees, database maintenance, and office expenses.
Fundraising expenses generate the income needed to do the work that we set out to do. These include the cost of direct mail appeals and communication, marketing projects, donor relations personnel, and email communication systems. Last year, every dollar invested into Lifewater fundraising efforts resulted in $10 of donation for the organization.
Over our 40 year history, Lifewater has received the highest accreditations from the most respected rating organization in the industry. Lifewater is recognized as one of the top-rated charities in the United States by independent reporting organizations, including:
Charity Navigator (four stars)
Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA)
Guidestar (Platinum)
Great Nonprofits (five star)
Excellence in Giving
Learn more at https://lifewater.org/top-rated-charity.
Lifewater’s work is founded on the belief that every person is made in the image of God. It is with this conviction that we seek out the globe’s most unreached, marginalized people groups in need of safe water.
Both nationally and internationally, 100 percent of our staff are Christians. These Christian staff help facilitate Lifewater’s Healthy Church strategy in communities. And, where there are no churches, we work with church planting partners to start new churches.
To create Healthy Churches, Lifewater first trains church leaders in foundational theology. These leaders are equipped with the basic story of the Christian faith and the biblical mandate to love others. Leaders learn that stopping the spread of disease and caring for the vulnerable aligns with our responsibility as Christians to love our neighbor.
Second, Lifewater ensures churches have safe bathrooms on their premises, handwashing stations, clean water nearby, and the education to promote health within their congregations. It’s imperative that churches are early adopters of healthy hygiene practices.
Third, Lifewater encourages churches to help vulnerable households become Healthy Homes. Church leaders undergo a training to become WASH (water access, sanitation, and hygiene) advocates in their communities. These advocates are encouraged to identify widows, child-headed households, the elderly, and the disabled to help them meet the health standards of Lifewater’s programs.
Lifewater’s Vision of a Healthy Village strategy is a relationship-first method. This model transforms entire regions house by house, village by village, and school by school. It is among the most intensive household-level work happening in the entire developing world and is closely tracked for progress, sustainability, and overall impact.
We construct custom-engineered safe water sources and teach life-saving health and sanitation practices in local villages and schools in need.
Your gift reflects your trust in Lifewater International. We commit to honor your generosity by using your gift to help further the mission and vision of Lifewater International. Your donation is used by Lifewater International according to the project objectives to provide safe drinking water and improved sanitation and hygiene within the specified program area. Lifewater International is a charitable organization as described in 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, registered in the United States. All donations are tax deductible to the full extent allowed by law.
Donations are non-refundable. Lifewater International will honor a donor’s request for any pre-approved program or project whenever possible. In rare occasions where this is not possible, gifts will be used where needed, in accordance with the organization’s charitable purpose. In accordance with this policy, donor’s explicitly release Lifewater International from further restriction on such funds.
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