Clean water - the start of a positive cycle of quality of life improvements which lift people out of poverty.

In many developing countries, women and children walk for hours, up and down mountains, just to collect water that can make them really sick.

If people spend less time on providing the basics, they have more time to farm, to learn and to create opportunity.

Learning that fact has motivated me to ask for your help.

We can play a small part in solving the water crisis -- donate to my 50th birthday campaign.

100% of everything we raise will directly fund water projects. And when those projects are finished, charity: water will send us proof in pictures and GPS coordinates, so we can see the actual people and communities we impacted.