16 Ounces of Hope

FS: What is a virtual bottle of water?
SH: For instance, you would send a Valentine’s Day card to a loved one and you would pay $20 and then they would receive the card. … And that’s been successfully done.

For Valentine’s Day, more than $10,000 was raised; Easter, more than $10,000 was raised.

FS: What is your relationship like with those who buy water?
SH: Well, in order to buy a $20 bottle of water you’ve got to be pretty educated about what we’re doing, pretty comfortable as far as the projects that we’re funding. We train our volunteers pretty well to talk about the need for water and sanitation, and then we basically tell people how much wells cost in different countries. So the [donor] understands exactly where his $20 is going and what it looks like.