Christmas is a time for family, celebration and love.

It’s also a time when America spends around $500 billion on Christmas gifts. That's more than $600 per person.

But.

Your $65 donation will fund safe clean water for a family in Cambodia - via a biosand filter - and buy you a handmade biosand filter replica pendant.

With just the right amount of sparkle and generosity, these pendants are handmade with love in Boston, MA. She'll wear it with pride and tell the story of how you showed her your love by helping a family in need.

Currently (12/16) 11 pendants are available. I can get those to you by Christmas (you'll need to send me your address, US only please). If they're popular, I'll make as many as I can as fast as I can but I can't guarantee Christmas delivery. Photo shows assembly process and finished pendant.

Pendant is a tiny glass vial with layers of chipped brick, black glitter "iron filings," clear blue epoxy "water," and fine (white), coarse (silver) and gravel (gold) sand, stoppered with real cork and a gold colored wire loop to hang on her favorite gold chain.

Together, let's give life this holiday season.

800 million people are living without clean drinking water on our planet. My mission is to give clean water for Christmas this year. 100% of every dollar I raise will go directly to water projects. And when the projects are complete, charity: water will show us GPS coordinates, photos and other details about the communities we've helped. Please join me by donating.