Children in Crossfire
Sail Around Ireland - 8th July 2023
Fundraising for Children in Crossfire
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The Lilies have been sailing together now for just over a year, we love the water and realise just how lucky we are to get to enjoy it through sailing. Therefore we have decided to do something too give back a little, and we thought helping to provide clean safe water was a great fit for the Lilies.
With your support we aim to raise enough to build a well for a village called Leman Ayitu Kebelem.
In this village there are 110 households and a school, all of which have no access to clean water. Often it is the children who have to walk long distances to fetch the water. There are high levels of poverty and most families live on less than $1.25. They mainly use the agricultural land for cattle grazing and maize crop. There is a great sense of community, interdependence and a strong local Oromia culture.
This well will be life changing. They will no longer have to make those long, often dangerous trips to fetch water and won't be sick from drinking the dirty water.
Sadly – Water related disease is the single biggest killer of infants in Ethiopia
32 Million people in Ethiopia don’t have access to clean water
8,500 children under-five die in Ethiopia per year due to diarrhoea
Water-related diseases such as Cholera, Typhoid and Dysentery cause 3.4 million deaths globally each year.
The Lilies race and cruise regularly in Lough Swilly, Co Donegal, but have decided it was time to challenge ourselves and sail out of the lough and Sail Around Ireland in July 2023.
We hope that you will enjoy following our journey over the next year and around Ireland. We would gratefully appreciate your support too through making a donation to our appeal by clicking the donate button above.
You can follow us on Instagram @liliesonthelough or on Facebook- Lilies OntheLough.
Thank you so much for your support,
Lilies On The Lough.
For more information contact Shauna:
email shauna713@hotmail.com or call 07597747940.
100% of donations received will go towards building a well in Ethiopia as we are covering the cost of the trip ourselves.