Vision:

To help make stories. Everyone has a story, it is written from what we experience throughout our lives. Maybe yours includes a first kiss, college, concerts, your pets, pretty sunsets, your first car, maybe kids, but we have lots of great little stories, some sad, some wonderful that all add up to be your own story. You get to share parts of it with friends, family, neighbors, your kids and grandkids. Everyone’s story is valuable, we can hear one and learn from it, share happy, sad and reminiscent moments with one another. Common stories are common threads that serve to unite each other. We want to stop the deaths of the 4,500 children each day, so that they can have the opportunity to create and share their stories that will inspire others, so that they can make a difference, so that they can be loved…by you. Save a Life. Create a story. Tell their story. Defy thirst.

Story:

Throughout their travels and mission work experiences, the founders of Defiant Missions and Defy Thirst became keenly aware of the inequities between developed nations and impoverished areas of the world. Both experienced first-hand a few of the diseases caused by microbially unsafe water (these stories, while funny are for a different time). Both saw attempts by charity organizations around the world to provide water by digging wells, only to have the $10,000 well they dug be contaminated the week after they left. What good does it do to provide water if it is not drinkable? They saw a need, and one that could be met. With the help of researchers at the CDC and UNC Charlotte, an engineer at NASA, and UGA and Valdosta State Grads, Defy Thirst was born.

Having seen lives lived in fear, realizing the sheltered lives they had lived, they embarked on a journey to in a nutshell “save the world.” Not in the superhero sense, and not just metaphorically, but one person, one village, one nation at a time. They truly believe that this generation has the capacity to make a difference, save not just a few lives, but many, and in the process learn a bit about who they are and the common bonds that exist between all mankind. Spread the Love, Defy Thirst!