Wednesday, December 09, 2009

Caroline


This is Caroline. Beautiful smile, right? She's smiling because she's drinking clean water for the first time. She used to walk three hours every day to fetch dirty water. But not anymore. Her village just got a well. Clean water will change everything for Caroline and her community. For every Caroline, there are millions more children hoping to smile like that. Almost a billion people on the planet don't have clean water right now. Who knows how many people you will impact. This is where it begins.

I am giving up "my Christmas" because I have my own Caroline. My Caroline drinks fresh, clean, safe water every day and I think this Caroline deserves the same. Don't you?

Did you know?
- Right now, almost a billion people on the planet don't have access to safe, clean drinking water. That's one in eight of us.
- Unsafe water and lack of basic sanitation cause 80% of all sickness and disease, and kill more people every year than all forms of violence, including war.
- Many people in the developing world, usually women and children, walk more than three hours every day to fetch water that is likely to make them sick.
- Of the 42,000 deaths that occur every week from unsafe water and a lack of basic sanitation, 90% are children under 5 years old.
- Just $2o can give a person in Africa clean, safe drinking water for 20 years.

Donate today: mycharitywater.org/lordfive

1 comment:

kawalker15 said...

Did you happen to see this charity on the People's Choice Awards last night? Queen Latifa talked about it and asked everyone to grab their phones and text to a certain number to donate $10. Pretty Neat.