One of our core principles is that the best way to improve your life is to help improve someone else’s life. Not only are we changing the world for the thousands of individuals who buy and sell services on MyZoox, but we are also changing the world through our charitable giving by annually donating a portion of revenue to our chosen charity for that year. Please read below to learn more about our featured charity for this year.

In this day and age, the statistics are seemingly unbelievable – 1.1 billion people lack access to clean drinking water, and nearly 2 million people die each year due to waterborne-related disease (90% of which are children under the age of 5). As a result, the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a worldwide water crisis among the world’s poorest people. Further, the UN has declared 2005–2015 Water for Life: The International Decade for Action.

“Every week, diarrhoeal disease due to easily preventable causes claims the lives of 30,000 people, most of them young children. This is a silent humanitarian crisis that thwarts progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MGDs). The consequences of our collective failure to tackle this problem are the dimmed prospects for the billions of people locked in a cycle of poverty and disease… I urge everyone to look at World Water Day as another occasion to renew their commitment to providing clean, safe water to all who need it." – Statement of former WHO Director-General, Dr. LEE Jong-Wook, to mark the International Decade for Action: Water for Life 2005-2015, 3/21/2005