Dear Everybody,
We are first graders from The Children’s School in Atlanta. Will you help us?
There is a problem in some parts of Africa. The problem is that some Africans have to carry water for many miles, and the water is heavy. It weighs many pounds because the water itself is heavy and so are the buckets. When they walk, people cannot just stop to drink some water when they are thirsty. Girls are pulled out of school to get the water, and it is usually women and girls carrying the water back to their families. The water is often dirty because the animals walk and go to the bathroom in it. Some people die from drinking dirty water. They have to get water even though the water kills them. They have no choice. There is a bias, too, because not everybody has these problems.
These problems with water are really hard to solve. One way people can fix it is by taking poop and turning it into clean water using a machine that evaporates the water, captures the hydration and then burns the poop for energy. Other ways people can help is to make pipes to get water near where they live, build wells with filters or sand dams, or have rain barrels.
People can send money to them for these things, or to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that invented the machine, or to charity groups like The Water Project or Charity: Water.
We wrote a letter to President Donald Trump asking him and the government to help. Will you help, too?
Sincerely,
TCS First Graders
