pictures + words.

When we started charity: water, the first thing we did was build a well, and take a picture of it. Then we told the story of the lives changed in that community to everyone back home. We've been doing that ever since. We want to show the immense need for clean water, and how that looks, really, not through statistics or numbers, but by looking at individual lives it affects. We've found this is our most powerful tool. Armed with a Nikon D200, we send photographers into the field to document the work being done, and to bring back proof once it's finished. Along with GPS coordinates and photos of every well, they usually bring back phenomenal stories of lives changed and communities revived.