Get Involved
There are many ways to get involved in bringing water and sanitation to the world’s most disadvantaged people. Each of the organizations below has distinct approaches and expertise in water, sanitation and other poverty-related issues. Yet they share a commitment to improving lives and livelihoods in countries throughout the world. We invite you to join our common cause through an organization of your choosing.
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Action Against Hunger / ACF International Network is a global humanitarian organization committed to ending world hunger. Recognized as a leader in the fight against malnutrition, ACF works to save the lives of malnourished children while providing communities with sustainable access to safe water and long-term solutions to hunger. With 30 years of expertise in emergency situations of conflict, natural disaster, and chronic food insecurity, ACF runs life-saving programs in some 40 countries benefitting 5 million people each year. |
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CARE is a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty. They place special focus on working alongside poor women because, equipped with the proper resources, women have the power to help whole families and entire communities escape poverty. Women are at the heart of CARE’s community-based efforts to improve basic education, prevent the spread of HIV, increase access to clean water and sanitation, expand economic opportunity and protect natural resources. CARE also delivers emergency aid to survivors of war and natural disasters, and helps people rebuild their lives. |
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Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is the official international humanitarian agency of the U.S. Catholic community. CRS seeks to alleviate suffering and provide assistance to people in need in more than 100 countries, without regard to race, religion or nationality. CRS implements programs in emergency response, development and peace building. |
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The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is the world’s largest global environmental network, with more than 1,000 members and 11,000 volunteer scientists. The IUCN Water Programme seeks to bring together this extensive network to support and develop sustainable solutions and initiatives for our planet’s most precious asset, fresh water. The IUCN Water Programme works in more than 30 countries to mainstream environmental issues in water resource planning and management, for the benefit of people and nature. |
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The International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) is a global leader in sustainable development. Its mission is to build a fairer, more sustainable world, using evidence, action and influence, in partnership with others. As employees of an independent international research organization, IIED staff are specialists in linking local to global. In Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Central and South America, the Middle East and the Pacific, they work with some of the world’s most vulnerable people to ensure they have a say in the policy arenas that most closely affect them—from village councils to international conventions. Through close collaboration with partners at the grassroots, IIED makes research and advocacy relevant to their needs and alive to their realities. Partnerships are key to the way IIED works: they keep its approach fresh and dynamic around the world. By forging alliances with individuals and organizations ranging from urban slum-dwellers to global institutions, IIED ensures that national and international policy reflects the agendas of marginalized people. IIED also advises governments, business and international development agencies and publishes widely. At a time when swift change is the norm, IIED finds solutions to the shifting array of challenges by focusing on five big issues: climate change, governance, human settlements, natural resources and sustainable markets. |
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Oxfam America is a member of Oxfam International, a confederation of 14 like-minded organizations working together and with partners and allies around the world to bring about lasting change. They work directly with communities and seek to influence the powerful to ensure that poor people can improve their lives and livelihoods and have a say in decisions that affect them. |
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SOS Sahel UK exists to find meaningful solutions to the poverty and vulnerability experienced by millions of people across the drylands of the African Sahel (West to East Africa). It wants to see the herders and farmers of the Sahel influence the decisions that affect their lives, and have control over the natural and economic resources they need for a secure and fulfilling life.
In Sudan, its program focuses on strengthening civil society and supporting peace building through activities such as capacity building of community groups, improvements in water supply and forest management, and influencing policy in favor of marginalized groups. |