Ihsan comes from a country where 58% of the rural population doesn't have access to clean water! Let's change that!

As you know, Ihsan's mom side of the family is from Niger, West Africa so the Sahel region is very close to our hearts and our roots. Lucky to have easy access to water on a daily basis, Ihsan would like to share his birthday with all the children in Niger and Mali that do not have his chance and give them the gift of having safe and clean water everyday.

During the hotter part of the year, the average temperature in the Sahel region of West Africa is more than 110 degrees.

For women here, not having access to clean water means hours of painful and exhausting work. Many of them walk miles each day just to reach the 100-year-old hole in the ground where they collect water. And they make that trip four or five times. Not only is that water contaminated and dirt-colored, but it has to be pulled up by hand, one bucket at a time.

The homemade rope burns their hands; it causes bleeding and leaves callouses — even scars. And sometimes the rope breaks, causing women to fall into the wells.

But we can change all of that!

We can bring solar powered pumps into communities and pipe water to tap stands right next to these women’s homes. We can bring time, energy and a better future to 100,000 people in Mali and Niger.

Help us play a small part in changing the lives of women and children in the Sahel -- donate to our 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.