We love traveling to Africa. You've heard of us going to Malawi, Uganda, Mozambique, Tanzania, South Africa and Kenya. In fact, the above photo of kids carrying 40 lbs yellow jerry cans of water is from our last trip to Uganda.

One of the reasons we love going there is because we are constantly reminded of how happy people can be with so little in their lives.

It then reminds us of how lucky we are to have amazing families, great education, well paying jobs and so much more!

But when we travel, we also see the hardships:
-- We met a teacher in Malawi who walks 30 minutes multiple times a day to get water for her students. She used to have to walk much further until a water well was placed nearby.
-- We heard how women and children used to have to walk hours down to the valley to get water, and now they have fresh water directly in the village
-- We learned how 4100 kids will die today due to illnesses from the lack of clean water

We are all super lucky to be where we are today.

So we are not asking for any birthday gifts, anniversary gifts, holiday presents or anything like that.

All we ask is that you donate to a cause we are both passionate about - getting clean water to the 800 million people that don't have access to it.

-- Arati, Anu and Chutney