Leave a Legacy
Just a Drop’s mission is simple, we will not stop until communities across the world can access sustainable safe water and sanitation facilities. You can help create this future with a gift in your will.
The Impact That Your Gift Can Have
Every day, women and girls across the globe spend 200 million hours collecting water. This leaves little time for anything other than cooking, and deprives their families of a potential second income.
One of these women is 40-year-old mother, Joyce, who up until last year, would spend hours every day walking 12km to collect water from the nearest river to her house. Even after walking that distance, the water that Joyce collected was dirty and made her and her family sick.
Thanks to donors like yourself, Joyce is no longer in this position.
We worked with her and her community to construct a Rock Catchment – a large rainwater catchment system that directs and collects the rainfall that flows from a steep rock face into several water tanks that the community can easily access to use safe clean water.
Joyce now can access water that is close to her home and is safe for her and her family to drink. In addition to this, Joyce uses the excess water to farm on her plot of land and to help rear her livestock, enabling her to contribute to her family’s income and also giving them food security.
With projects like this, the impact is clear. Joyce, her community and her family will be able to access safe water, sanitation and the benefits that come with these for years to come. The gift in your will leave a legacy and transform lives.
How Donations Are Used to Have the Greatest Impact
We spent every pound carefully, making sure that we use any gift or donation to really impact lives and ensure that communities can access safe water long into the future.
In every £1 we spend, 81p goes towards enabling communities to access safe, clean water and sanitation, 17p is spent on fundraising and communications and 2p on governance.
We see a return on every pound we spend. For every £1 we spend on fundraising, we raise £5.88.
You can find out more by reading our annual reports here.
With the help of incredible people like you, we’ve worked over the last 26 years to reach over 1.96 million people across 33 countries with safe, clean water and sanitation. Through sand dams, school tanks, biosand filters and so many other types of projects, we’ve helped communities to unlock potential and thrive.
Imagine
What would you do if you had to walk for hours every day to fetch water that made your family sick? Watch our film ‘Imagine’ to get a sense of the realities of living without access to safe water…