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Matt Damon Makes an Impact See Matt's work in Ethiopia and elsewhere, as highlighted on CNN's Impact Your World segment
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An Indian Heroine Shanmugavalli is working tirelessly to make life better for her family and her community.
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Sanitation saves lives Children and community organizers play a critical role in sanitation and hygiene education.
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Water Access in Africa In remote areas of Africa women travel miles each day to collect water for their families. It's dangerous and debilitating.
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Asian Water Access Urban slums share sporadic and unreliable water connections with 50 other families.
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Give Thanks for Water How can you help? Read Manonmani's story from India and how a household water connection transformed her life.
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What a latrine can mean in Ghana

Madam Ama Ataa, a 74-year-old blind woman from Chamba Akuraa, Ghana, talks about the benefits she will get from the new latrines in her community through Water.org and APDO’s program.

The beauty of community ownership

Maria Delsa Sanchez is a proud mother of six. Maria is also the first treasurer of the newly elected water committee in the rural Honduran community of Guatincara. Maria and four other community members were all sworn in just months ago to serve as the water committee for their community’s new water system.