July 23, 2012
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Rachel’s Mom Visits Ethiopia

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Samantha
Samantha, Rachel’s mother, in Ethiopia along with Rachel’s grandfather, Richard

Exactly a year ago today, nine-year-old Rachel Beckwith was killed in a tragic car accident on highway I-90 near Seattle, Washington. After her death, thousands of people all around the world started donating to her mycharity: water fundraising page, and over the course of a month, raised over $1.2 million in Rachel’s honor. That money is now helping 60,000 people get access to clean water.

Rachel’s mom, Samantha, and her grandparents, Richard and Roseanne, are in Ethiopia with charity: water today, meeting some of the people Rachel helped. We’ve documented the entire day on video so we can share it with all of you. We’re busy working on it right now, and we’ll post it here on Tuesday.

Please check back on the blog soon, or sign up on our email list, so we can send the video straight to your inbox.

– the charity: water team

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  • Alexandre

    With 1.2 million we could build schools that would bring real changes… Only who have been in Any African country knows what is the reality…
    People should learn that first thing you should change is education… First they give water, second they need give toilets (because people still dying because of diseases), third they give food…But nobody cares about education, that teach people how to clean their water, how to keep their environment free of feces and urine and how to work their soil so they can have better food source…Dead AID… this is the way…

  • Alexandre

    And one more thing… Media have huge power, and you guys are using it well… I’m gonna still work hard to fight for education, so, maybe I’ll not be there to see the changes, but they will be there…

    Your latest video is really well made… using all sources of wrong information in way to make people fell pity…

  • Adam

    Alexandre, as someone who works in developing world education I have to disagree with your statements below about this being “dead aid”. While there is no doubt about the value of education, access to clean water and toilets go hand in hand with this. You need healthy students to attend schools, and you need schools and strong teachers for healthy students to attain educational opportunities. There is no single solution to poverty in the developing world, clean water/sanitation and education are interconnected solutions that are the essential foundations for people, especially children, to lift themselves and their family out of poverty. 

    Adam Braun, Founder of Pencils of Promise

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