All I Want for my 21st Birthday is Clean Drinking Water for 50
This January 1st, 2011 I will finally turn 21.
All of my birthdays have always been about stuff. Stuff I sometimes don’t want, stuff I definitely don’t need.
So this year, I’m giving my birthday up.
I’m turning 21 years old, and instead of asking for gifts, I’m asking for $21 or more from everyone I know. It’s not going to me, though. All of it is going to build freshwater wells for people in developing nations.
About a year ago, I stumbled upon this awesome organization and heard their cause and story. All i want for my 21st birthday is for 50 to have clean drinking water. This will take just under 50 gifts of $21.
A billion people in the world are living without clean water – but how much are they really living? Millions contract deadly diseases from contaminated water. 45,000 people will die this week alone. The lucky ones won’t, but still walk hours each day to get dirty water to give to their families.
My birthday wish this year is not for more gifts I don’t need; it’s to give clean and safe drinking water to some of the billion living without it. I want to make my birthday matter this year.
Please join me in donating here:
http://mycharitywater.org/marshall
Also if you have the time, watch this presentation given by charity: water founder Scott Harrison. It’s all about his beginnings and how the whole organization came to be, its a good story.