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:

* Only some Health & Hygiene Workshops are logged as stand-alone projects; others occur as part of one or more of the projects listed above. In total, we offered 995 H&H workshops in fiscal 2023, benefiting a combined 157,309 children and adults.

Before-and-after research at project sites revealed these impacts in fiscal 2023:

• An average of 394 people were benefiting from each water project
• 322,700 hours were saved EACH DAY by children and adults (72 minutes per household) no longer needing to walk long distances for water
• 3,971,362 additional HOURS EACH MONTH that children were in school rather than fetching water
• 496,420 additional DAYS EACH MONTH that GIRLS were in school rather than fetching water 
• $9,755,839 in total monthly economic impact from families no longer needing to buy water (estimated average water purchases per household multiplied by total households)
• a $5.73 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:

*Only some Health & Hygiene Workshops are logged as stand-alone projects; some occur as part of one or more of the projects listed above. We did not log H&H workshops during the early years of Lifewater so we are unable to provide an accurate cumulative count for workshops or beneficiaries throughout Lifewater's history.

CURRENT FISCAL YEAR Impact Report:

*Only some of the Health & Hygiene Workshops are logged as stand-alone projects; others occur as part of one or more of the projects listed above..

Before-and-after research at project sites revealed these impacts so far in fiscal 2024:

• An average of 281 people are benefiting from each water project
• 97,476 hours were saved EACH DAY by children and adults no longer needing to walk long distances for water
• 1,079,331 additional HOURS EACH MONTH that children were in school rather than fetching water
• 134,916 additional DAYS EACH MONTH that GIRLS were in school rather than fetching water 
• $2,858,601 in total monthly economic impact from families no longer needing to buy water (estimated average water purchases per household multiplied by total households)
• a $5.46 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" (last updated Dec. 2, 2023):