I'm turning 20! Goodbye teenage years you were very good to me. Instead of asking for gifts, I'm asking for $20 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. It takes 20 dollars to provide clean water for a person. Twenty that is all!

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.

So please. I'm begging you, join me.
My goal is set at 500 but that is not where it should stop. 5,000 dollars is what it costs to build a well for 250 people. Now wouldn't that be amazing to provide for a whole community!

please note: Because of charity: water's unique model, 100% of all donations go directly to direct water projects costs, and each donation is "proved" and tracked to the village it helped when projects are complete.