The Gold Into Water Project
'The Gold into Water Project' is a collaboration of the entire jewelry industry: Miners, manufacturers, and retailers, that are using a portion of their sales from one of the world’s richest resources; precious metals, to help provide the world’s most vital resource; clean water, to those that do not have access to it.
Our goal is to collaborate with members of the jewelry industry and use one resource that comes out of the earth to provide another - fresh, clean, drinking water.
Worldwide, 1 out of every 5 deaths of children under 5 is due to a water-related disease.
783 million people do not have access to clean and safe water worldwide.
Half of the world's hospital beds are filled with people suffering from a water-related disease.
The jewelry industry is renowned for it's wealth, and our goal is for it to be renowned as an industry of generosity.
We operate with a 100% model. All donations go straight to clean water projects.
WE ARE PROUD
charity: water is a nonprofit on a mission to bring clean, safe drinking water to every single person on the planet.
About the Water Crisis
If you already have clean water, it can be a little hard to understand just how dire the water crisis really is. Think about how often you use water in a typical day. A morning shower. A cool drink. Washing the dishes. Even making coffee requires water.Now, imagine turning on the tap and rather than clean, cool water, mud comes out. Or worse yet, nothing at all. Imagine how difficult and time-consuming each daily task would become.This is a daily reality for 663 million people around the world. Except they don’t even have taps, they have to walk—sometimes three or four hours a day—to gather dirty water and bring it home in heavy Jerry Cans. Then they have to carefully choose the most essential uses for the little water they have.
Common Waterborne Diseases
The most common waterborne diseases are arsenicosis, cholera, diarrhea, dysentery, fluorosis, intestinal worms (worm), schistosomiasis and typhoid. Malaria, E. coli, trachoma and HIV/AIDS are also affected by lack of safe water sources.
Where charity: water works
charity: water has worked in 24 developing countries in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Central America, and South America. Including countries such as Bangladesh, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Central African Republic (C.A.R.), *Cote d’Ivoire (the Ivory Coast), **Democratic Republic of the Congo (D.R.C.)†, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nepal, Niger, Pakistan, Rwanda, Sierra, Leone, Tanzania, & Uganda.
are you a GIW
Gold into Water's mission is to provide access to clean, safe water, to as many people as possible. By contributing 1% of your net profits to this cause, we can not only change the future, but also change the view of the jewelry industry in it's entirety.