What's New
In 2008 we were privileged to welcome Bryan, Thin Nwe Soe and Htun Htun Oo to the Thrist-Aid team. This year working in partnership with UNICEF and Asia Transpacific Foundation as well as the Myanmar Red Cross we'll introduce Thirst-Ed our Education First safe water intervention to rural populations in the Delta region of Burma.
We're also pleased to be hosting the first Thirst-Aid "World Water Day Challenge". We hope that you'll join us to make the week of March 22nd-28th successful.
We'll begin a project in Ratlam, India in January in partnership with Asia Transpacific Foundation and Rotary International.
We have a lot to do. With your help Thirst-Aid and our partners will be able to provide safe water to over 7 million people in Myanmar/Burma, meeting the United Nation's Millennium Development Goal to halve, by 2015, the number of people without sustainable access to safe drinking-water and basic sanitation.
How We Got Here
In early 2005 the Ttocirrod Foundation joined efforts with Curt and Cathy Bradner to offer opportunity to people without. The alliance began in 2000 when Bill Dorricott founder of the Ttocirrod Foundation met with Curt and Cathy. He agreed with their method of empowering the children they were helping and began donating to their Youth Development Projects. Since then they’ve partnered with Asia Transpacific Foundation and UNICEF to build a sustainable safe water program in Myanmar/Burma.
Curt and Cathy Bradner began working with refugee youth in 1999. While teaching orphaned refugees how to maintain bicycles and bringing crayons to kids they began explaining what they were doing to friends, family and potential donors telling them, “we offer opportunity to kids that don't have any”. They believed that classes which taught skills would make anyone who accepted the opportunity to learn a more valuable member of their community and more able to help others. They had watched the giving of things go un-appreciated by recipients. Knowledge on the other hand they felt was hard to lose, rarely wore out or got discarded, in fact it was usually shared and passed on. With this in mind they started the Vocational Incentive Program as well as the Youth Development Projects.. Art-Exiled and the Safe Water Innovations Management program both grew out of the Bradners' relationships and experiences while helping those with potential but lacking opportunity.
Our History
In 1980 Bill Dorricott the founder of the Ttocirrod foundation wrote this mission statement. “The specific purpose for which this foundation is formed is to assist persons who are socially, mentally, economically or physically handicapped to achieve the highest individual potential as a happy and productive member of society as the person’s individual handicap will permit; to provide financial assistance to and/or on behalf of such persons in order that they may be provided with special education or training, higher education, medical services, psychiatric counseling, occupational counseling, social counseling, or other professional assistance as such person’s particular handicap may indicate is needed and which such person is unable to obtain through his own personal resources, governmental programs, or other charitable organizations; and to select deserving recipients for such assistance without regard to the proposed recipient’s particular race, creed, color, sex, ethnic background, age, or geographical locale but rather with a view toward balancing the proposed recipient’s particular needs against the resources available form this foundation to assist said recipient and the prospects such assistance will foster genuine and substantial improvement of the proposed recipient’s capacity to function as a happy and productive member of society. In 2007 the Ttocirrod Foundation began doing business as Thirst-Aid.
The Ttocirrod Foundation is a 501c3 DBA Thirst-Aid.
