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Project costs
Because attempting rowing records across the Atlantic is quite an expensive business, we need some help in covering our project costs. We hope to cover the costs through sponsorship from individuals and companies that want to financially support us so that we can give more sponsorship monies raised directly to WaterAid. Currently we do not have sufficient sponsors to cover the project costs in full, so until we do, we will take 50p in every pound from Atalnticsix and put it towards the cost of the project. Once the costs are covered we will obviously give 100% of each donation directly to charity, and as we hope that full project costs will be covered, we will then give all those 50p’s that we ringfenced for project costs back to the charities as well.
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Just giving
If you would like to support the charities but don't like the idea of us using 50p in each pound to fund the project costs, please donate directly to the charities through our just giving pages where they will receive all of the money donated.
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Water Aid Facts
- WaterAid works in 17 countries providing water, sanitation and hygiene education to some of the world's poorest people.
- 1 billion people in the world do not have access to safe water; this is roughly one sixth of the world's population.
- 2.6 billion people in the world do not have access to adequate sanitation; this is roughly two fifths of the world's population.
- 1.8 million children die every year as a result of diseases caused by unclean water and poor sanitation. This amounts to around 5000 deaths a day.
- WaterAid projects providing safe water, sanitation and hygiene education cost just £15 per head.
- Water-related disease is the second biggest killer of children worldwide, after acute respiratory infections like tuberculosis.
- The weight of water that women in Africa and Asia carry on their heads is commonly 20kg, the same as the average UK airport luggage allowance.
- Water and sanitation infrastructure helps people take the first essential step out of the cycle of poverty and disease. In the UK the expansion of sanitation infrastructure in the 1880s contributed to a 15 year increase in life expectancy in the following four decades.
