Dan Carter

I always wanted to do more, having gone to refugee camps and explored the incredible work that they do.

And then when I finished playing, I was like, right, I'm going to set up a DCT and fund.

I'm going to partner with UNICEF.

But what are we actually going to do?

Like, I want to handpick what UNICEF projects.

And I looked at education.

I looked at...

sort of things, damage that was happening through war.

And then I kind of looked at the Pacific Islands and having so many Pacific Island brothers and my teams that I played for, I suddenly realised that one of the leading causes for death in children in the Pacific was the lack of clean and safe drinking water.

The fact that we can help deliver something so simple that we take for granted here in New Zealand and just to see the impact that we're having almost immediately was good.

And we've been to...

I've been to Vanuatu, Kiribati, Fiji, and seen schools and medical centres that, you know, that we're helping deliver clean and safe water and just the impact that it's having, the smiles on the kids.

And we've been to a few schools and what they do, remember the old prefix at schools?

Yeah, it was never one of their favourites.

No, to be honest, I wasn't one either.

So I was envious of these students and they were called the WASH.

So WASH stands for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene.

and they have these wash clubs.

And if you're a wash club member, one of the senior members of the school, then you're the first one to school and you're teaching these young kids how to wash their hands properly.

They would come and everyone would have a toothbrush and they're brushing their teeth and they get some clean drinking water to start the day with.