Dear Christ follower,
Every minute that goes by, two children in India under the age of five die simply because they don't have their most basic needs met.
Needs like food… shelter… and most importantly, safe drinking water.
In fact, 900 million people in India don't have access to even the most basic necessity of clean water… water most of us could walk a few feet and open our tap to get.
That puts them at incredible risk for… - Deadly waterborne diseases such as cholera, dysentery, typhoid, and hepatitis
- Increased cases of malaria and dengue fever through household water containers that serve as breeding grounds for disease-spreading mosquitos
- Kidnaping, abandonment, and sex slavery as they risk being exploited on the long, dangerous journey to collect water
These precious boys and girls simply shouldn't have to worry about risking their lives for something as simple as safe, clean water. | | |  | | Your gift today DOUBLES to bring lifesaving clean water to
children in need! | | | | So today, I'm asking you for your most urgent gift to help build water wells in poverty-stricken Indian villages like Pritha's.
For Pritha, the lack of clean water made every aspect of life a real struggle.
In her few years of life, she's watched far too many people in her village die from preventable waterborne disease – ten in the last two years alone.
The long daily walks to the dirty brook where she used to draw water meant she and so many other children in her village couldn't get the education they needed.
The water they were able to fetch comes from the same source where people use the restroom, take baths, and clean their clothes and pots and pans.
And help is so hard to come by. Many who are beholden to India's caste system believe precious little ones like Pritha suffer because it's their fate. So they do little or nothing to intervene.
But thanks to friends like you who believe differently, Pritha now has hope.
Some generous partners recently demonstrated Christ's love and gave to help build a well near Pritha's home, which means she and the other children in her village no longer have to worry about whether their next drink will give them a disease. And Pritha can now focus on the things someone her age should be focused on… attending school and spending time with friends.
Best of all, she only has to walk a few feet outside her home to get safe, clean drinking water!
Today, you have the chance to make more stories like Pritha's possible – by giving a gift to help put a well within reach of a child like her. - Your $25 gift today brings water to 20 children in need thanks to the Match
- Your $100 gift means 80 children get clean water thanks to the Match
- Your $250 gift means 200 children get clean water thanks to the Match
- And your $1,500 – doubled by the Match – means TWO ENTIRE VILLAGES get water wells!
Since 2001, Rise+Shine has opened over 1,400 water wells providing clean water for approximately 900,000 people in India – all thanks to the support of friends like you.
So please, I urge you to not let another minute pass without helping meet this urgent need.
Give as generously as you can today, knowing your gift will be DOUBLED to bring safe, clean drinking water to children in India like Pritha – so they can rise above their circumstances and shine for Jesus.
Thank you – and God bless you for your generosity today. 
"Clean water changes lives!"
Jordan Cranfield
Executive Director
Rise+Shine | | | About Rise + Shine: Rise+Shine exists to support vulnerable children and adults in South Asia. Out of all of the people in the world that don't have access to clean water, more than twenty five percent of them live in South Asia. One in ten people in South Asia, don't have access to clean drinking water - that's over two hundred million people! Click here to provide clean water to children now! | | | | |
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