The Adams family home has been taken over by origami (折纸)in all sizes and shapes. No one seems to1hough. Those paper creations are2clean water projects around the world and saving lives. A messy home is a small price to pay3
In 2011, Isabelle Adams and her sister Katherine learned that every five seconds a child died from4of clean water and that girls of their age couldn't go to school5they were fetching water all day for their families. They6to do something.
"So we took something that we loved doing - folding origami, with the7goal to help fund a well in Ethiopia," explains Katherine.8, they ended up selling out and raising far more than that to fully9the cost of the well.
Katherine, now 13, adds, "It just snowballed,10the founding of the project Paper for Water." In eight years, this project has11more than 2 million for over 200 water projects in 20 different countries.
Now, the rest of the Adams family are also12. But at the heart of it, beneath countless paper decorations sit two bold sisters hoping to13other girls and boys. "Kids have an incredible ability to make a real14to the world if they're just given the chance," Isabelle says, "and if people15them in their efforts."