The YES Club at Aliso Niguel High School: Water 4 Life is about generosity and caring for others. It’s about becoming part of a solution to a world-wide problem by giving up our stuff to provide clean water for people in need.
Club members are challenged to say “Yes” to give up buying things like Starbucks, video games, new shoes/clothes, fast food, makeup, bottled water, or upgrading to the newest cell phone and instead donate their money to provide clean water to people in desperate need.
Why? Because changing the world changes us, and clean water changes everything!
In 2013, Aliso Niguel students overwhelmingly responded to this challenge and through personal giving and fundraising, raised enough money to drill the first Aliso Niguel High School Water4Life clean water well in Leon, Nicaragua. The well is scheduled to be completed on October 17, 2014.
Our goal this year is to raise at least $7,500 to drill a second well in Central America. And who knows? Maybe one clean water project is just the tip of the iceberg.
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- 800 million people in the world don't have access to clean water.
- 443 million school days are lost each year due to water-related illness.
- A child dies every 21 seconds from a water related disease.
- An estimated 200 million hours are spent each day globally collecting water. That’s equivalent to 100,000 people working for an entire year – every single day!
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