Over the weekend, I received an email from Lauren asking for some help. She and Keely have started a bloggers movement to help raise money for the non-profit organization Charity Water.
The organization helps to fund a mission to bring clean drinking water to developing nations.
Right now, almost a billion people on the planet don’t have access to clean, safe drinking water. That’s one in eight of us.
To learn more, check out Charity Water's informative video. It's such a simple thing. Only $5,000 can help to build a well that will provide clean water for over 250 people. In fact, funds are being raised right now for a well in Africa and they're just $1,000 short from being able to build the well.
Maybe today, we could skip the Starbucks? Or grab a PBJ instead of stopping by Chick-Fil-A for lunch? Because just $5 from each of you could be enough to help to reach that goal. 100% of all donations directly funds clean water projects.
Blogging is such an awesome little community- it still floors me that people like to hear me chat on and on about painting cabinets, making curtains and spray painting everything I own. So I'm honored to be able to use this blog as a platform to share this organization with all of you. We're blogging for charity.
A generous man will prosper,
he who refreshes others will himself be refreshed.
Proverbs 11:25
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YAY! so exciting to see bloggers pull together on this!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great movement. So many things that we take for granted.
ReplyDeleteI added myself to follow your blog. You are more than welcome to visit mine and become a follower if you want to.
ReplyDeleteGod Bless You :-)
~Ron
This really is such an important cause. I'm involved with Living Water (a similar organization) and am amazed at what a difference clean water can make in a community.
ReplyDeleteHere is a video from TED. It features the Founder of a company called Water Brick. It has a similar concept of taking fresh water to areas where there is little available, but their containers are also re-usable as building materials, much like legos, after they have been used...Check it out. They are doing great work in Haiti.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdjmrfcP9Wk
BTW...On the subect of wells...12Stone has started a project to drill 100 wells in mozambique. you can see more info about that project here. The first one, (and maybe more) have already been done!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.100wells.org/