First Rate Exchange Services, the UK’s leading supplier of foreign currency to businesses in financial services, travel and tourism and the retail sector, has announced a new partnership with Just a Drop.
 

The company will aim to support two of Just a Drop’s clean water projects. The first, chosen by employees and already fully funded by First Rate Exchange Services, will benefit the village of Muyebe in south-western Uganda. It will involve renovating the community’s reservoir, pipe distribution network and the storage tanks, providing clean water to up to 15,000 people. The company is now galvanising all their people to start fundraising with the aim of funding a second project. 
 

The people in Muyebe are very poor and rely on subsistence farming for their living. Boys drop out of school early and girls are often given in marriage at 14 in exchange for money. On top of that is a severe clean water issue. Girls are often the water-carriers and before school have to carry jerry cans for up to four kilometres up and down a mountainside, and even then it is dirty and unsafe. This obviously has an impact on their education and their health. 
 

For a community as poor as this, clean, safe drinking water will have a huge impact on their quality of life, meaning they don’t have to spend what little money they have on medicines for water-related diseases, and that they have more time for employment and school. 
 

Gordon Gourlay, Managing Director for First Rate Exchange Services said,

“As the UK market leader and the experts in foreign exchange we wanted to make a difference to children who live in some of the countries that our customers visit and that’s why we think Just a Drop is the perfect choice of charity partner for us.”
 

Fiona Jeffery, Founder and Chairman of Just a Drop said, “We are very appreciative of the support given by First Rate Exchange Services. Their decision to support two projects will allow Just a Drop to bring clean water to thousands of people and will save and change lives, especially for the children of the communities. We simply couldn’t deliver these projects without their support.”

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For further information please contact:
Nicola Swann
Tel: +44 (0)20 8910 7019
Email: nicola.swann@justadrop.org