What if you could change the world?

For just $100 you can give a family a lifetime clean water filter.

Give Clean Water, Inc., a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, provides and installs clean water filters in people’s homes so no matter what type of water they have access to, these families will always have clean water to drink.

We need your help. Whether you’re an individual, non-profit, or corporation, by providing financial support or joining us on a trip to install clean water filters in people’s homes, you can change the world, one family, one filter at a time.

According to the World Health Organization, 1.8 million people die every year from diarrhoeal diseases. Globally it is the leading cause of illness and death.

Meet Ride4Water’s Ryan & Davin

August 31st, 2010

On Sept 1st, Ryan Delamater and Davin Anderson will embark on an 18-month, 6 continent bike ride to raise awareness and funding for Give Clean Water. The duo will begin the trip from Hudson, Ohio with a plan to end in Fiji by April 2012. The goal is to raise $1 million by asking 10,000 individuals to donate $100. The Ride4Water funds will provide 45,000 Fijians access to clean water.

It was Delamater who conceived of the Ride4Water. As he was wrapping up graduate school this past year, he began pondering his next chapter in life. It was then that the seed was planted.

“I thought, why not marry my love of bicycles with serving others?” recalls Delamater. “And what better way to serve than bringing clean water to people in need?”

Dalamater, 36, is the owner of a real estate leasing company, and a former youth pastor. He is also an avid, long-distance cyclist. His past feats have included a 6,000 mile trek across upper North America to bring attention to Ugandan teenagers being drafted into the military. Delamater recently earned his master’s degree in Counseling from Ashland University.

He invited Anderson, 29 – a friend and fellow cyclist – to join him on the Ride4Water. He was thrilled with the Ride4Water idea – and resigned from his job as a restaurant manager to join Delamater.

The two have sold the bulk of their collective possessions to cover expenses for the trek. They plan to pedal their way through six continents and 40 countries, traveling 31,000 miles. The first leg of the trip, Sept. 1 – October 15, will be from Ohio to California. From there, they will journey South from Mexico to Argentina. Next, they will fly out to Africa where they will ride up the west coast into Europe. From there they travel east to Hong Kong. They then go to Australia and when they finish riding they plan on flying to Fiji to meet some of the people they helped get clean water for.

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