In the mountain villages of Lesotho in Africa, the first thing children carry in the morning is never a schoolbag, but a heavy water bucket. They trek for kilometers to a polluted river just to collect murky water. They drink it when thirsty and use it to wash their hands. Stomach aches, diarrhea, and even cholera become everyday struggles. Too often, sickness keeps them home instead of in class.
Then one day, everything changed. World Vision installed a clean water system and handwashing stations at their school. 11‑year‑old Mokhoele watched the tap with wide eyes and a huge smile, “Now we can wash our hands every day, clean our lunch boxes, and drink safe water! We can even grow vegetables in our school garden and water them ourselves!”
Drop by drop, clean water washed away the children’s sickness and brought back smiles and lessons.
One New Year red packet can bring that same life-changing water to another school, and give another child like Mokhoele real health for the very first time.
This New Year, will your red packet become a source of protection for a child’s health?
United Nations data reveals a sobering reality: 2.1 billion people worldwide still lack safely managed drinking water, including 106 million who rely on untreated surface water; 3.4 billion lack safely managed sanitation, with 354 million forced to practice open defecation; 611 million people do not even have the basic right to wash their hands with soap and clean water.
Behind these numbers are children whose lives and futures are threatened by unsafe water.
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) is one of World Vision’s core ministries. Through our work, every 10 seconds, 1 person gains access to clean water; every day, 3 schools receive safe water supplies.
Step by step, these changes protect children’s health and restore their smiles and education.
Donate a red packet the New Year, let it become a drop of clean water that safeguards a child’s hopeful future!
This year's Red Packet campaign will support World Vision’s WASH projects in Africa:
Supports the installation of handwashing facilities in 1 school to promote hygiene awareness and prevent the spread of diseases
Supports the building of ventilated, gender-segregated latrines in 1 school to prevent the spread of diseases and protect children’s dignity
Supports the construction of boreholes in 1 community to provide clean drinking water and ease the villagers’ burden of fetching water
If you would like to donate via ATM transfer or direct bank-in, please send us the bank-in slip with your name and telephone number written at the back and make a photocopy for your own reference.
Bank Account (Hong Kong): Bank of China 012-883-0-002552-0
You may also donate via online bank transfer or by using any mobile banking app that supports the Faster Payment System (FPS). You can donate through FPS by:
Scanning the QR code below, or
Entering the FPS ID: 106743925
Account Name: WORLD VISION HONG KONG
If you need a donation receipt, please mail us the bank-in slip or send the screen capture of the confirmation page (recipient: World Vision Hong Kong) to [email protected], together with your name, phone number and postal address.
Clean water is just the beginning. Children also need education, nutrition, protection, and a supportive environment to thrive. Through World Vision Hong Kong’s Child Sponsorship Programme, you can help transform lives of children by empowering their families and communities for long-term and sustainable development.
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