Young girls whose responsibility it is to collect the family water spend their entire day walking for water—mostly dirty water that causes severe illness and too often death. Many of them are unable to go to school because their days are spent trekking for water. They are sacrificing their futures to survive the present. When their job is finally done fetching water, they are too exhausted to put energy into anything else. This creates a vicious cycle that greatly inhibits children’s educational enrichment, which in turn perpetuates the cycle of poverty. When everything stays the same, nothing can change. Water is the first crucial step in relieving this generational curse of poverty. We all have a role in doing our part to help alleviate the global cycle of poverty.