On to India!

This is the blog of Help A Village Effort, a charity based in Haliburton County, Ontario.
H.A.V.E. or Help A Village Effort, is a volunteer organization that began in 1982 to assist people who do not have fresh, safe drinking water.

HAVE is a Registered Charity based in Haliburton County, Ontario. Since 2002 H.A.V.E.'s first official Branch was founded in Glovertown, Newfoundland. It now has official representations in cities and towns throughout Ontario, Newfoundland and British Columbia.

Our major fundraisers are WALKS FOR WATER.

Clean potable water greatly reduces the water-borne diseases from which many people suffer and die. Safe water also provides a basic foundation from which other aspects of development can occur.

H.A.V.E. is a rural based non-government organization (NGO) responding practically to initiatives taken by indigenous NGOs working with very needy neglected villagers in some of the world's poorest areas. Typically 95% of the donated funds goes directly to the provision of safe drinking water mostly via bore (artesian) wells . We are supported by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), other interested support groups, and, especially, individual donations.

As well as putting in over 700 (to date) safe drinking water systems, we have funded (in earlier years) a mobile health care program in India, support for needy children, a primary reading program in the Gambia, West Africa, and many other cooperative projects with dedicated partners - all of which were designed to help the poor and needy to experience an improved quality of life.

H.A.V.E. is dedicated to help as many needy people as possible; to obtain clean, safe drinking water in their villages.

From HAVE website

Over the next month, Ron and Toos Reid, two board members of HAVE will be in India checking up on some of the wells the charity has funded in that country. They will be reporting on their journeys on this blog.

Enjoy!