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SHUTTERSTOCK + charity: water

The Shutterstock community is renowned for its creativity -- from our subscribers, who use our imagery and footage to convey messages and tell stories, to our base of talented submitters who created the work you see above – we represent individuals worldwide who bring ideas to life.

This creative spirit lies at the heart of our partnership with charity: water. By donating to Shutterstock’s campaign to bring clean water to 12 villages in Africa in 2010, you are helping to bring a very important idea to life – the idea that everyone has the right to safe, clean water.

Remember, your donation is not just a drop in the bucket; $20 can give one person in a developing nation clean water for 20 years.

Throughout the year, we will update this page with photos and news from communities where wells have been built, and lives have been changed. We welcome you to join Shutterstock and charity: water to help the people who need it most; and we hope that you’ll check back in to see the difference that we’ve made together.

Shutterstock Sponsors 12 Wells in 2010

Shutterstock is teaming up with charity: water to bring clean drinking water to 12 villages in Africa for every month of 2010. From January until December of next year, Shutterstock is committed to working with charity: water to build freshwater wells to benefit men, women and children who lack one of life’s basic needs: clean, safe water.

charity: water is a non-profit organization that brings clean drinking water to people in developing nations. 100 percent of all public donations go to direct project costs, funding sustainable clean water solutions in areas of greatest need. Just $20 can give one person in developing nation clean water for 20 years.

Donate to Shutterstock’s campaign to bring clean water to 12 villages in Africa in 2010. 100 percent of your donations will go directly to funding sustainable freshwater solutions in developing nations. All donations are tax-deductible. Read privacy policy >

Where does my donation go?
Your donation goes to direct project costs such as cement, piping and deployment of the necessary drilling equipment. Learn more >

The water crisis.

One billion people on our planet lack access to safe, clean drinking water. That's one in eight of us. 80% of all disease is attributable to the lack of water and basic sanitation. Unsafe water claims more lives each year than war. Learn more >

How you can help.

You can help us build wells. A freshwater well costs $5,000 and can serve an average of 250 people with clean, safe drinking water for 20 years. Just $20 serves one person with clean, safe drinking water. Donate >

Proving it in GoogleEarth.

charity: water proves every well built using photos, video, and GPS coordinates plotted in Google Earth. charity: water staff visit projects on the ground, monitoring the work being done with your money. See the wells in Google Earth >