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Light the World Giving Machine Initiative 2026

Kids helping kids, one card at a time.

A penny provides clean water to drink for a month of school. Give $10 and keep clean water flowing for 1,000 kids.

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The math of a penny

What your pocket change can do.

So a $10 Month of Clean Water card keeps clean water flowing for 1,000 kids for a month. Every one of them gets a safe drink of water, every school day.

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Each dot is one student1,000 pennies = $10
Every card has a story

Imagine it was your school.

Each Splash card in a Giving Machine kiosk stands for something a student somewhere needs to get through the school day. Behind every card is a real kid, about the same age as the kids who pick them. Here are five of them.

$10 Clean Water $15 Menstrual Kit $25 Water Treatment $50 Handwashing $100 School Toilet
Hayat at the orange handwashing station at her school in Addis Ababa Splash Month of Clean Water card: Keep 1,000 students hydrated with safe drinking water at school.
$10
Month of Clean Water

Imagine your school running out of water for a whole week.

Hayat, age 10Grade 4 · Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Hayat loves hide-and-seek, English and math, and she wants to be a pilot. Before Splash came to her school, students sometimes had to bring water from home, and it wasn’t enough for the whole day.

“Sometimes, the water wasn’t available for the whole week.”Hayat

Now her school has blue stations for clean drinking water and orange ones for washing hands. Hayat is in the Hygiene Club, and she shares hygiene messages at the morning flag ceremony.

Keep 1,000 students hydrated with safe drinking water at school.A penny provides clean water to drink for a month of school.

Give $10
Read Hayat’s story
Arsema smiling at her school in Addis Ababa Splash Student Menstrual Kit card: Keep five girls in school with menstrual health education and period products.
$15
Student Menstrual Kit

Imagine getting your period at school, with nothing to use and no one to ask.

ArsemaGrade 7 · Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Arsema loves singing and theater, and she wants to become a gynecologist. At her school’s Gender Club she learned about menstrual health, and now she teaches it to other students through songs and performances. Some boys who used to tease about it have stopped. One student even asked Arsema for a pad, with no embarrassment at all.

“A girl can continue her normal life even if she is in her period.”Arsema

Keep five girls in school with menstrual health education and period products.One card, five girls who don’t have to miss class.

Give $15
Read Arsema’s story
Eldana pointing to a hygiene poster beside the handwashing stations at her school Splash School Water Treatment card: Protect schoolchildren for two months from waterborne diseases like cholera.
$25
School Water Treatment

Imagine taking a drink at school and getting sick.

Eldana, age 12Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

At Eldana’s school, the old concrete stations were cracked, the taps often ran dry, and stored water could turn unsafe.

“Some of my classmates got sick from the water.”Eldana

Splash replaced the stations and added filters, and now the drinking water is safe. Eldana is a Hygiene Club member and student leader who makes sure her classmates fill up at the filtered stations. She wants to be a civil engineer and design structures that help communities thrive.

Protect schoolchildren for two months from waterborne diseases like cholera.Water that’s safe to drink, every time a kid takes a sip.

Give $25
Read Eldana’s story
Selam smiling in front of a teal wall Splash Handwashing Station card: Equip 35 students with a bright, kid-friendly way to make hygiene a daily habit.
$50
Handwashing Station

What if the first time you saw yourself was at a school sink?

Splash adds mirrors to its bright, kid-height handwashing stations, because kids spend more time washing when they can see themselves.

Selam, age 14Grade 9 · Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Selam has been in her school’s hygiene club for two years, and she took the lessons home. She wants to become a doctor.

“Every morning before she goes to school, she tells everyone to wash their hands with soap.”Selam’s father

Selam also has a wish for kids she has never met: “I want other schools to be beneficiaries of clean water and hygiene education.” Picking this card is one way to make it come true.

Equip 35 students with a bright, kid-friendly way to make hygiene a daily habit.A sink, soap, a mirror and a habit that lasts.

Give $50
Read Selam’s story
Tigist in her Gender Club vest beside the handwashing stations at her school Splash School Toilet card: Keep 50 students comfortable and dignified at school with a safe, private latrine.
$100
School Toilet

Imagine a school toilet with no lock on the door and no light inside.

Tigist, age 14Grade 6 · Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

When Tigist was younger, her family couldn’t afford to send her to school. Today she’s in sixth grade at Tinsae Birhan Primary School and secretary of its Gender Club. Her school’s toilets used to be dirty, with no bin for pads. Now the stalls have locking doors, lights, mirrors, running water and soap.

When her first period came, Tigist was afraid to tell her family and asked a friend for help. Now she teaches other girls about menstrual health, especially those who haven’t started their periods yet.

“Being able to attend school is the best thing that has happened to me. It’s like coming out of the darkness.”Tigist

Keep 50 students comfortable and dignified at school with a safe, private latrine.A door that locks, a light that works, a reason to stay in school.

Give $100
Read Tigist’s story

These stories come from Splash schools in Ethiopia. Stories from students in Zambia, where Splash’s newest work is underway, are coming soon.

A young girl in a red and white knit hat points to a card she wants inside a Giving Machine kiosk Four smiling students in Splash club vests standing arm in arm at their school in Ethiopia
Choosing a card at a Giving Machine kiosk. Courtesy: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Inset: Splash school club members in Ethiopia.
For families, classes and youth groups

Kids can help kids.

Hayat, Arsema, Eldana, Selam and Tigist all help other kids at their schools. Kids here can join in.

Pick a card togetherVisit a Giving Machine kiosk as a family, class or youth group and let the kids choose.

Fill a penny jar1,000 pennies is one Month of Clean Water card: clean water for 1,000 kids for a month.

Find a kid your ageRead a student’s story above, then choose the card that would help a school like hers.

Share itPost a photo with your Splash card and tag @splash_org. We love to reshare.

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No kiosk nearby? Give the same cards here.

Every Splash card from the Giving Machine kiosks is here, from anywhere in the world. Pick the one that speaks to your family.

You can also give any amount, once or every month.

Gifts on this page go directly to Splash and are processed by Splash. They are separate from gifts made at Giving Machine kiosks. Card descriptions show what a gift can help make possible. Donations are pooled to support Splash’s work where it is needed most.

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Month of Clean Water: keep 1,000 students hydrated with safe drinking water at school.

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Proof it works

What changed when Splash came to school.

Splash and independent researchers studied 537 schools in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and Kolkata, India, before and after Splash’s work, in a program called Project WISE (WASH in Schools for Everyone).

E. coli in school drinking water

Lower is better

Before
54%
After
0%

Students who wash with soap

Still doing it 18 months later

Before
25%
After
90%

School toilets that stay clean and working

Higher is better

After
95%+

Girls who miss school because of their period

Lower is better

Before
16%
After
3%

Source: Project WISE Phase 1 results, published by Splash. Read the studies at splash.org/impact

Two students walk past a bright orange Splash school toilet block in Ethiopia

Built to last, then handed over.

Installing a water station is the easy part. Keeping it working is what most projects miss. Splash trains teachers, janitors and local technicians, works alongside government, and stays with each school until it can run the system on its own.

Our goal is global impact, without Splash.

Where we’re headed

Next stop: 350+ schools in four Zambian cities.

Splash is already at work in Zambia. This year Splash installed water and sanitation at its first pilot schools. Now Splash, the government, local NGO partners such as BORDA Zambia and the schools themselves are training teachers, maintenance staff and janitors together.

350+schools by 2030
700,000+students
1 in 10students in Zambia

By 2030, Splash is working to reach one in every ten students in the country.

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A large group of students in blue school uniforms in Zambia cheering, two of them holding up a Giving Machine Initiative item card
Students in Zambia with a Giving Machine Initiative item card from a past season.
Nearly 1.2 million

children served by Splash every day, across nine countries.

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Find a Giving Machine kiosk

A kiosk where every item is a gift.

Giving Machine kiosks look like vending machines, but every item inside is a gift for someone else. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sponsors the Giving Machine Initiative and covers the cost of running the kiosks, so 100% of each kiosk gift goes to the charity you choose.

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Find a kiosk near you and look for the Splash cards.

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Choose a card and pay with a card or your phone.

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A card drops to show the gift you gave. Snap a photo and tag @splash_org.

Thank you to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and to the volunteers who keep the kiosks running in every city.

A row of three red Giving Machine kiosks filled with gift cards, with a shopper in a red coat looking at one
Children unwrap a set of red Giving Machine kiosks at a launch event

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Questions

Good to know

Does my whole gift go to Splash?

At a Giving Machine kiosk, yes. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints covers the initiative’s operating costs, including transaction fees. Gifts on this page go directly to Splash and are processed by Splash.

When does a kiosk gift reach a school?

The Giving Machine Initiative sends funds to nonprofits starting in April 2027. Splash then reports back to the Church on exactly how they were used.

Is my gift tax-deductible?

Splash is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Gifts made on this page are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.

Where does Splash work?

In public schools in cities across Africa and Asia. Splash serves nearly 1.2 million children every day across nine countries, and its newest work is in Zambia.

Are these real students?

Yes. Hayat, Arsema, Eldana, Selam and Tigist attend Splash schools in Ethiopia and shared their stories with Splash. You can read each one in full at splash.org.

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