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One Love Worldwide is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization established to provide aid and resources to underprivileged persons in an effort to rehabilitate their environment and create self sustainability. OLW's vision is to operate without geographical limitation. Each day OLW continues the fight to end generations of poverty and sickness by focusing on sanitation and hygiene, safe access to clean water, and agricultural development.

Operations

One Love Worldwide’s initial goal was to build an orphanage for the orphans founder Karli Sue McMurray met during her first visit to Ghana, Africa's Teacher Mante village in 2009. As OLW researched and learned more about the village of Teacher Mante, it was clear that an orphanage was not the village’s biggest need. OLW realized that without safe access to clean water the village could not develop. OLW rearranged their priorities and set out to get water for the people of Teacher Mante. After facing many obstacles in drilling the first water well, OLW's sustainable water system was completed in February 2011. OLW is now expanding operations throughout the Eastern region of Ghana with plans to provide additional villages with safe access to clean water. Follow the progress of this organization at www.oneloveworldwide.org.

History

One Love Worldwide's founder, Karli Sue McMurray, traveled to Ghana, Africa in the Summer of 2009 to study law and intern for a judge at the High Court of Accra. Her desire to immerse herself in the local culture lead her to develop friendships with those who worked at the hotel where she stayed. She befriended a young man, Simon Adjei, who continually spoke of the harsh conditions the people of his village were facing. During her last week in Ghana, Simon's persistence convinced her to travel with him to his native village. This journey took her to the village of Teacher Mante where the harsh realities she encountered truly changed her life. She made a promise and set out on a mission to expose these harsh realities to the world. Her career path would soon change from prosecuting to providing people with safe access to clean water

She returned to the United States and immediately got to work. With the Oklahoma City University School of Law behind her, her first project raised funds to provide the orphans of the village with mosquito nets in an attempt to help eliminate fatalities caused by malaria. As word spread of her efforts, Professor Bill Conger took an interest in her efforts and offered her the guidance she needed to establish a nonprofit organization. One Love Worldwide incorporated in New Mexico May 17, 2010, and was recognized by the IRS as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization on ______.