We offer a variety of performance metrics to show how and where your donations are being invested -- and the results they are achieving.

ANNUAL Impact Report:

* The investments in Health & Hygiene and in Infrastructure have impacts on a broad range of projects and people.

** We also offered 155 Health & Hygiene workshops to recipients of new wells, toilets, and hand-washing stations in fiscal 2021; the workshops benefited 137,554 people.

Before-and-after research at project sites has revealed these impacts in fiscal 2021:

• An average of 606 people benefited from each water project
• 76,836 hours were saved each day by children and adults (43 minutes per household) no longer needing to walk long distances for water
• 150,543 additional hours per month that children were in school rather than fetching water
• 19,193 additional days per month that GIRLS were in school rather than fetching water 
• $2,368,290 in total monthly economic impact from families no longer needing to buy water (estimated average water purchases per household multiplied by total households)
• a $5.35 economic return for each $1.00 invested by a donor (value of hours saved from walking to fetch water that can be applied to earning income, of hours saved that can be applied to attending school, of household savings from no longer buying water, etc.)

CUMULATIVE Impact Report:

* The investments in Health & Hygiene and in Infrastructure have impacts on a broad range projects and people.

CURRENT FISCAL YEAR Impact Report (unaudited):

* The costs of hand-washing stations are included in community toilet costs

** The human impact of H&H workshops is not included in the final human impact tally because participants have already benefited from one or more other water projects in their community; we don't want to "double count" them.

*** The costs of health and hygiene workshops are included in the costs of other water projects

Before-and-after research at project sites has revealed these impacts so far in fiscal 2022:

• An average of 390 people are benefiting from each water project
• 95,936 hours are being saved each day by children and adults no longer needing to walk long distances for water
• 143,057 additional hours per month that children were in school rather than fetching water
• 17,882 additional days per month that GIRLS were in school rather than fetching water 
• $4,797,436 in total monthly economic impact from families no longer needing to buy water (estimated average water purchases per household multiplied by total households)
• a $5.19 economic return for each $1.00 invested by a donor (value of hours saved from walking to fetch water that can be applied to earning income, of hours saved that can be applied to attending school, of household savings from no longer buying water, etc.)

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Here are some "impact graphs" we update each month (last updated May 3, 2022):