While attending the University of Kentucky, Sarah and Andres felt the need to get involved by supporting water projects in developing countries. Here’s why in their own words –

Each year, millions of people die or are unable to be productive due to diseases that ultimately relate to the lack of safe drinking water in their communities. After extensive exposure to poverty and disease-stricken countries, as well as the study of water-borne illness, our awareness of the leading cause of health disparity, poverty, and mortality in the world became a vision for change.

We have developed a campus-wide project at the University of Kentucky and in the Lexington community, which we called “Healing Waters, for Love Saves Lives”, with the ultimate goal of raising community awareness of water problems in the developing world while raising needed dollars. This funding is being used to specifically build safe water, effective sanitation and hygiene facilities for rural villages and schools in developing countries. We feel the monetary resources that come out of our project will be invested best by experts in the field, and we are proud to have chosen the international non-profit organization, Global Water (www.GlobalWater.org), to partner with.

We hope to accomplish our fundraising by selling unique, hand-drawn Valentine’s Day cards the month of February each year. Each Valentine card not only communicates love and respect of the person it is sent to, we also hope that it will create awareness of the world's water disparity between the developed world and the developing world. In addition, money raised through the sale of our cards will fund water-related facilities as Healing Water to an actual rural community in need. Because printing costs have been donated, 100% of the raised funds will go directly to the children in Guatemala schools. Healing Water is our goal, for we know that Love Saves Lives.

Please contact the University of Kentucky students who created the Valentine’s Day Cards directly (Andres Chang at andreschang06@uky.edu and Sarah Williams at Sarah.Williams7@uky.edu) for more information about how you and your organization can get involved by selling Valentine’s Day cards to raise funds and awareness for humanitarian water projects.

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