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100% of your donation goes directly to building clean water projects.
WATER IS A HUMAN RIGHT. JOIN THE FIGHT. ™
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You’ll get a beautiful, personalized certificate to share with the person you’re giving on behalf of.
PLEASE include your name, name of the recipient, donation amount and contact information (email or phone number) when you send a check!
Email gina@thirstproject.org for more information.
Make checks payable to THIRST PROJECT. If you’re donating in honor of someone, sponsoring a water project or want to direct your donation to our operating costs, please write that in the memo of your check.
Please note, donations made by check will not be matched.
Tax receipts will be mailed within four to six weeks after the donation has been processed.
Please note, only donations from within the U.S. are tax-deductible.
PLEASE include your name and contact information (email or phone number) when you send a check!
c/o Thirst Project
5482 Wilshire Boulevard
Suite 1903
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Fidelity Account Number:
Z66-428850
DTC: 0226
For security, settlement and reduced paperwork, electronic transfer through the Fidelity is preferred. This can be arranged from most brokerage accounts.
Please contact info@thirstproject.org in advance so your stock donation can be easily tracked for tax purposes.
Please note, only donations from within the U.S. are tax-deductible.
Thirst Project
5482 Wilshire Boulevard
Suite 1903
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Money orders should be made payable to THE THIRST PROJECT and can be mailed to the address below. For donations over $6,000, we also accept wire transfers; email info@thirstproject.org for more information.
Please note, only donations from within the U.S. are tax-deductible.
Thirst Project
5482 Wilshire Boulevard
Suite 1903
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Fund A Project For An Entire Village
Leave a legacy that will last long after you donate.
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Give By Check
Make checks payable to THIRST PROJECT. If you’re donating in honor of someone, sponsoring a water project or want to direct your donation to our operating costs, please write that in the memo of your check.
Please note, donations made by check will not be matched.
Tax receipts will be mailed within four to six weeks after the donation has been processed.
Thirst Project
5478 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 401
Los Angeles, CA 90036
EIN# 35-2339840
eSwatini $12,000
Donate To Support Those Who Need It Most
In 2012, we committed to what NO ONE has ever done before, and give the ENTIRE KINGDOM of eSwatini safe, clean drinking water. It will cost a little more than $50 Million to do this. We know that is a LOT of money, but it’s REALLY not THAT much money considering we are giving an entire NATION clean water.
By 2025, we will have committed $50 MILLION dollars to the Kingdom of eSwatini for clean water projects.
Your Village Report Timeline
Village commits to equal usage of well, training, & operation & maintenance fund.
Village elects water committee (five women & five men).
Hydrology & groundwater surveys performed.
Borehole drilled!
Pump test performed.
Construction of well (with the support of sweat equity from community members).
Water quality tests performed.
Operation & maintenance fund opened in community’s name.
You receive project and community information, GPS coordinates of your well, photos of your well and the community, and a personalized “Thank You” video from the community members to you, by name, showing the water source that the community used to be forced to rely on, the community itself, and the exact well that YOU funded.
Water committee trained on maintenance, repair, sanitation & hygiene.
21 Months. 1 Completion Report. 500 lives forever changed. Proof.
FAQ’s for Village Sponsors
We strive to serve as many people as possible, and so we prioritize building water projects with and in communities (villages) that range in size from as few as 100 to as many as 1,000+ people served by one water project.
One of the most devastating and least-talked about facts in our space is that the Failure Rate of borehole wells implemented by foreign NGO’s just on the continent of Africa alone (not counting Southeast Asia, South or Central America) is upwards of 50%* within the first year! This is beyond alarming, and largely is due to a lack of community engagement, sweat equity, ownership, training, and technical processes that are overlooked and left out of the well building process by many groups. Because of this, we have worked tirelessly with our Water Project Technical Committee to establish incredibly stringent Standards for Sustainability that govern HOW we build wells to ensure that our wells last. Obviously (as of January 2020) we only have ten years of data to draw on, but, if our processes & systems are followed, our wells should last more than 40+ years at least. (As of January 2020, we’ve only ever had ten wells “fail,” and four of them are operable again after the community repaired them independently.) Make sure to read our downloadable Standards for Sustainability.
*Data sourced from UN
Anyone who fully funds at least one or more wells is welcome to join the Thirst Project Staff on any of our Documenting/Reporting trips! On these trips, you will spend time in the villages/ communities where we work and see the wells funded by your support & others like you! Because of the highly technical/dangerous nature of operating large drill rigs, there are not many volunteer opportunities to actually “build” a well with us, but, you will get to see firsthand the impact of our work, old water sources that people used to be forced to rely on, completed water projects, serve community members directly, and help document the work we are doing to report back and share with the world. You must fundraise to completely cover your own travel costs. (Costs vary depending on location[s] and time of travel.) Trips are scheduled approximately once per quarter. Schedules change frequently until Teams are 100% confirmed. For more information on scheduled trips, vaccinations, liability, and costs, email info@thirstproject.org.
we commit to always use 100% of student & public donations to fund clean water projects
When we started the Thirst Project, we had a sweeping vision of a generation of socially–conscious and active young people giving boldly and generously of themselves to end the water crisis. We want to build a world that truly works for everyone. We committed from day one that if a student only had $1 or $5 that 100% of those dollars would go to funding water projects in the field. As we became a public organization, we made the same commitment to the public.
A group of incredibly generous private donors, foundations and sponsors cover everything from staff salaries to office rent to travel and supplies. These donors are amazing. They know the value of investing in operations and their investment fuels our long-term mission, our ability to grow and our commitment to give 100% of student & public donations to water projects.
Proving It
We LOVE data, and transparency is one of our number one core values! If you fully fund your own well, you will receive project and community information, GPS coordinates of your well, photos of your well and the community, and a personalized “Thank You” video from the community members to you, by name, showing the water source that the community used to be forced to rely on, the community itself, and the exact well that you funded.
Even if you don’t fully fund a well, every well we ever build is documented from beginning to end and the basic data is shared with the public. Not everyone gets the personal donor videos, but everyone receives the GPS coordinates for every site can be found on this map here: It takes 21 months to fully complete and report back on a Thirst Project project.