Community
BUILD A POOL – DIG A WELL
At Paradise Pools and Gardens, we have a passion for creating beautiful things with water! Locally, this passion is revealed in the beautiful custom swimming pools and water features we design and build for our clients. Globally, this translates into our partnering with World Vision - the largest non-governmental provider of water in the developing world - to bring clean water to places around the globe where it is most desperately needed.
Although most of us cannot imagine life without clean water, access to it is a daily struggle for about 1 out of every 11 people (695 million people) on the planet. And nearly 1000 children under 5 die every day from diseases related to unsafe water and poor sanitation/hygiene. The daily burden of fetching water for the family is borne mainly by women and children, walking an average of 6 km every day for dirty, disease-infected, “fresh” water. The journey is exhausting, unhealthy, and often dangerous. It keeps children from attending school and mothers from working. All of this is preventable.
Paradise Goes to Rwanda
In 2019, Paradise had the opportunity to go to Rwanda to see firsthand the reality of what it is like to live in a community that does not have access to clean water – in contrast with one that does. In the first village we visited, we walked with the children to collect dirty water from a nearby pond in which cattle waded, which was their only option for what they could drink, bathe in, and wash with at home. It was heartbreaking. We then visited a village that had been accessing clean water provided by World Vision for the past four years. The contrast was astounding. This second community had been transformed. No more long walks to collect dirty water - and children able to attend school! In addition, in order to protect this valuable new resource that enabled them to thrive, they had put in place a committee of volunteers selected by the community to oversee the maintenance of the equipment and distribution of the water, ensuring that they will be able to continue to access this clean water for years to come.
Amazingly, in 2023 World Vision achieved their goal of bringing clean water everywhere they work in Rwanda!
Join Us
With the goal in Rwanda now met and the funding in place to do the same in Zambia, we are currently partnering with World Vision to bring clean water everywhere they work in Ghana! We invite you to JOIN US! Through our annual Wine to Water fundraising events, in partnership with Horse Thief Vineyards, we have thus far raised enough funds to bring clean water to an entire school and four villages in Ghana! We could not do this without the support of our clients, co workers, families, friends, and neighbors. We CAN create beautiful things with water - in Ghana – together!
Click here to review World Visions' business plan for water Ghana.
Questions? Contact our World Vision Representative, Dave Navarra at dnavarra@worldvision.org