For Gianna Carlile, her activism journey began when she was 8 years old when she started Wells of Life, a charity that provides rural Ugandans safe and clean water.
"Most of us we took this morning or we just had a drink of water, and we can just go straight to the top and there's water right there. And it's perfectly set up for us. But they don't have that in Uganda," said Carlile. "In Uganda, in particular, about 40% of existing wells are non-functional and organizations that have drilled wells haven't been able to maintain the wells or the materials that they've used haven't been able to be sustained," said Danny Sells of Wells of Life. "And, so we go into these communities and take possession of that well and restore it to full functional order.
"Most girls have to walk for four to five hours just to get some kind of dirty water for the family to have and that's their water for the day," said Carlile. "And they have to carry like this huge jug on their head and I have to walk for so long that they don't have to go to school. They don't get to go to school."
These religious based charities need to stop. It's just propaganda