Hockey, New Zealand
Hugo Inglis hopes that one day every child will be born into a world with the necessities they need to thrive. Unfortunately, unclean drinking water is responsible for more than 1.2 million deaths each year. With the mission of lowering this number, Hugo supports Evidence Action, an organization that provides and installs chlorine dispensers across rural areas in Kenya, Uganda and Malawi. To date, the organization has installed more than 39,000 chlorine dispensers to provide clean water to more than 6.8 million people, including more than 900,000 children under five years old. Hugo is also the Managing Director for High Impact Athletes (HIA), a nonprofit that connects athletes with the most cost-effective, evidence-based charities in the world in the sectors of global health and poverty, climate change and animal welfare. One of the charities HIA works with is Evidence Action.
The P&G 2024 Athletes For Good grant will allow Evidence Action to provide safe drinking water to 16,000 people for one year, saving about eight lives.