Drop4drop
Your Impact
One of the many hundreds of clean water wells
When You Stake with GYS, You HELP
Proceeds from all rewards collected by our pool, are donated towards clean drinking water to people and places in need. 785 million people in the world don't have access to clean water and Drop4Drop believes everyone, everywhere has the right to clean water. Since 2006, over 1.4 million people have benefited from Drop4Drop clean water projects. Grow Your Stake (GYS) wants to help Drop4Drop achieve its mission to alleviate the world water crisis.
The Issue
663 million people in the world do not have access to safe water. This is roughly one in nine of the world's population
Half of the world’s hospital beds are filled with people suffering from water related diseases (UN)
The water and sanitation crisis claims more lives through disease than any war claims through guns (UN)
Women and children collectively walk 200 million miles a day to collect, often dirty and unsafe, water
1.5 million children die every year due to water related diseases
443 million school days are lost each year due to water related illness (WHO/UNICEF)
The Results - The Difference
For every $1 invested in water and sanitation, there is an economic return of between $3 - $34 (WHO)
The introduction of a clean water source to a community saves thousands of hours every week previously lost to water collection
The time freed up from water collection means women have more time for work and productivity within the community increases
When children no longer have to collect water they can spend more time in education, improving their chances of a brighter future
Hygiene education programmes and practices dramatically improve the health of a community, heavily reducing the amount of water related diseases and deaths
Clean water lays the foundations to a brighter future and creates a happier world