Matt Damon, H2O Africa co-founder, and Gary White, WaterPartners executive director and co-founder, have joined forces to co-found a new organization – Water.org – a non-profit focused on bringing access to safe water and sanitation to the developing world.
Water.org combines the powerful marketing platform of H2O Africa with WaterPartners' proven track record of on-the-ground water project success.
The merger of H2O Africa and WaterPartners will improve efficiencies, leverage expertise, and increase the overall social return on donations. Water.org will be an integrated advocacy and fundraising destination for safe water and sanitation issues. Through its partners worldwide, it will champion innovative business models, local partner development, project selection and oversight, program management, and post-development monitoring and evaluation. Later this year, the organization will launch an entirely new online experience that will bring unprecedented transparency and connectedness between donors and those in need.
The result: far more people with access to safe drinking water and sanitation.
Water.org will continue to deliver the same high-quality water and sanitation projects that have defined WaterPartners for nearly two decades. This includes the relentless pursuit of new, innovative ways to reach more people with clean water.
Water.org will leverage grassroots awareness-building expertise and nearly two decades of demonstrated innovation and success to help the nearly 890 million people without safe water and the more than 2.5 billion people without safe sanitation.
Gary White, who recently received the prestigious Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, sees a bright future for Water.org and the people it serves, “For more than 20 years I’ve been working to realize the vision of global access to safe water, and with the help of our donors, staff, partner organizations, and the H2O Africa team, I’m confident we can accelerate our impact.”
Matt Damon, a long-time advocate for safe water issues and co-founder of H2O Africa, explains the importance of launching Water.org, “Every fifteen seconds, a child in the developing world dies from water-related disease. After visiting project sites in Africa and Asia with Gary, I’ve seen the problem and the impact of safe water.” Damon continues, “As a clear leader in the sector at delivering innovative and sustainable solutions for those in need, WaterPartners was the natural choice with whom to work to truly affect lasting change.”
With your continued support, Water.org can make global access to clean water a reality. Please visit at: www.water.org
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