The month of April has abounded with great opportunities for causelife, and we are excited to share them with you. Dedicated supporters have made this month memorable by providing clean water to communities around the world. And Hunter Smith is just one of them. A 16-year-old from Lynchburg, Virginia, Hunter expressed his passion by organizing a race—the Agua Pura 5k—to raise funds to provide clean water for a village in Guatemala. He dedicated his time and resources and recruited sponsors to cover all the expenses of the race to make sure...

The Andrews family is passionate about providing clean water to those who are without. After Joshua and their 10-year-old son, Kase, returned from Guatemala, they were determined to provide clean water to the villages they had seen. The sight of these villages was sobering as they witnessed firsthand the consequences dirty water has on the communities. Water sources are scarce, and illness from waterborne diseases is widespread—all because of the lack of clean water. While in Guatemala, they had the opportunity to visit a local school...

One village we went to had water brought in on a truck . . . We found out it was contaminated, and they sell it to people. The people are already poor, and now they’re paying to get sick. It’s terrible. —Hunter Smith “Guatemala is so different than anything I’d ever seen before,” Hunter Smith, 16, admits. Hunter had traveled before, but nothing could prepare him for his trip to Guatemala—an experience that would change his life. “The poverty  we see in the U.S. is nothing compared to what is typical in...

Delia Recinos and her daughters have risen at 5 a.m. their whole lives . . . simply to meet the daily task of fetching water from a distant source. A source that, once reached, was susceptible to pollution and waste. Water was not something readily accessible to any of the people in Nueva Providencia, Guatemala. To Delia, the journey for water and the risk she and her family took by drinking it was normal—something she planned on facing for the rest of her life. But a passionate group of young people in Virginia, determined take a stand...

Today is World Water Day—a day to raise awareness of the World Water Crisis that is stealing the lives of thousands. But it shouldn’t end there. This should be a day to focus on resolving this need by bringing clean water to communities around the world. Global Crisis. This very day, millions of people will scavenge for clean water. They will drag their tired feet down dusty, dirt roads in search of any water source that will, most likely, be filled with contaminated water. Death, due to water-related illnesses, is a very real risk they...