One Day's Wages

One Day's Wages (ODW) is an international grassroots movement dedicated to ending extreme global poverty by partnering with . The numbers are staggering:

• 25,000 children under the age of 5 die each day due to poverty-related causes.
• Unsafe water and lack of basic sanitation cause 80% of all sickness and disease, and kill more people every year than all forms of violence, including war. Nearly 900 million people do not have access to clean water.
• Nearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names. 

See how one organization is partnering with others and making a difference in the fight on extreme poverty.

Consider the impact of your one day's wages, which is equivalent to about 0.4% of your annual salary. 

• $20 can provide clean water for one person for 20 years.
• $10 can purchase a bed net to help prevent malaria.
• $45 can pay annual school tuition for one child.
• $100 can provide a woman with a sewing machine and job training.