BeyondWater

BeyondWater
Since we began in 2007, BeyondWater and Rotary clubs across Australia have partnered together to give 240,000 people (and counting) clean water and sanitation facilities EVERY DAY to East Africans.

What began with our founders Pete & Sharon Crean (RC Pohutukawa Coast, NZ) to give one child clean water has expanded to schools, medical clinics and remote communities across seven countries. Our leadership program, The Girl Project, now operates in four locations in Kenya and Rwanda.

With the generosity of Rotary, Interact and Rotaract Clubs, thousands of students now have good toilets and somewhere to wash their hands.
Most of us have never really been thirsty. We’ve never had to leave our home and walk 8 kilometres to fetch water. We simply turn on the tap, and the water comes out - clean.
 
Our passion for fighting poverty is strong as ever. Now that Covid restrictions have lessened, we’re pleased to announce our 2022 Pedal Against Poverty NZ/US Tour is happening over November and December. Our New Zealand crew will be cycling the length of the North Island. For those in Texas, they’ll be taking up the cycling cause on the day the Kiwis finish. Next year, we aim to add Australia to our tour route.
 
Our goal is to raise $50,000. This will enable us to build ten toilets blocks, giving at least 4,000 children a much-improved sanitation environment at school. Each toilet block will have guttering and a 2,000-litre tank where students can wash their hands.

We now need Rotary Clubs to partner with us to achieve this. Thus, we are reaching out to our Australian Rotary family and asking for clubs to make a $500 donation towards our cause.

100% of donations go directly towards projects, and we prove where your money goes via photos and videos. Clubs are also given recognition through names on a plaque.
 
It’s not hard to think about water today. In the western world, we face growing concerns about our stewardship of the world’s most precious resource. There’s talk of shortages, evidence of reservoirs drying up and plenty of people who simply don’t care.
 
But forget about us.
Most of us have never really been thirsty. We’ve never had to leave our home and walk 8 kilometres to fetch water. We simply turn on the tap, and the water comes out - clean.
 
Yet more than 1.1 billion people don’t have clean water. It’s hard to imagine what a billion people look like, but imagine it as one in six of us. One in six people in our world doesn’t have access to the most basic of human needs—something we simply can’t imagine going 12 hours without.
 
Here we’d like to introduce you to a few of those one billion people. They are genuine, and they need our help. They didn’t choose to be born into poverty, where the one water supply is a polluted swamp they share with animals.
 
I invite you to put yourself in their shoes, look at their faces, and follow them on their journey. These people like you and me have dreams, aspirations, and hope. Imagine what it’s like to carry 25kg of water in a yellow fuel can, to dig with children in sand for water, to line up at a well and wait 8 hours for your turn. Then to do it all over again, every day.
 
Decide to help. We’re not offering grand solutions and billion-dollar schemes. We’re not tackling governments; we’re giving everyday people clean water. We’ve found that simple things work, like freshwater wells, rainwater catchments and sand filters. We’re building latrines, so girls are encouraged to attend secondary school. We’re helping to break the poverty cycle.
1 billion - that’s a lot. Start by helping one.