Airline Ambassador’s first project on Global Giving was Water4Hopi.
536 non profits participated in a 3 week campaign and came in 3rd PLACE raising over $20,000 to provide water filters for the Hopi Reservation! We delivered the first 18 filters from Clean Water Foundation on Oct. 24, 2020.
Our team traveled to Arizona, toured Isagenix Headquarters, a sponsor of the project, and on to Sedona to meet Hopi representatives Ernest Taho and Albert Cassini. We provided the first 18 Reverse Osmosis filters, Wellness training materials, 100 Angel Shirts and 100 masks for Hopi Children. Nancy Lucarelli was so impressed when she learned firsthand about the crisis, that she bought another filter for a needy family.
We all celebrated with a drum circle lead by Thunderbeat!
Our team left Sedona inspired and ready to do more to help the Hopi. We are planning another Campaign to raise funds
The tribe has struggled to secure safe drinking water. See news story
Due to high levels of Arsenic 3 and 5 along with other contaminants in the water such as Vanadium and Uranium
Hopi residents have to drive 2 hours to get to the closest store to stock up on clean water
With each filter delivered in Hopiland we are including a book The Message from Water
Nancy visited Hopiland in 1983 to meet Grandfather David, and Thomas Banyaca, spiritual elders. She was present when Thomas revealed the Hopi Prophecy at the UN. The filters being delivered are reverse osmosis units in honor of her father’s, pioneering efforts promoting this technology and AAI is proud to partner with
Clean Water Foundation
Leon McGlothlin, a shoe shine guy from Seattle, founded this charity which brings clean water throughout the world. Here are news stories: KOMO News “Heroes story”, My America on FOX News, NBC Making a difference, Clean Water for children in Bolivia, Celebration for Giving
The need is still great and you can still Help!
The primary meaning of the word “Hopi” is “behaving one, one who is mannered, civilized, peaceable, polite, who adheres to the Hopi Way. Hopi is a concept deeply rooted in the culture’s religion, spirituality, and its view of morality and ethics. To be Hopi is to strive toward this concept, which involves a state of total reverence and respect for all things, to be at peace with these things, and to live in accordance with the instructions of Maasaw, the Creator or Caretaker of Earth. The Hopi observe their traditional ceremonies for the benefit of the entire world. The Hopi have always viewed their land as sacred and themselves as caretakers of the land that they inherited from their ancestors.
Today, the Hopi Reservation is entirely surrounded by the much larger Navajo Reservation. The two nations used to share the Navajo–Hopi Joint Use Area, commonly known as Big Mountain.
The Hopi Tribe is facing a crisis that is now staring us squarely in the face. Hopi Message about water See this video of Hopi water clan
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