Hey guys -

Imagine tomorrow morning you wake up, you go to brush your teeth but nothing comes out of the faucet. You try going to the bathroom but it doesn’t flush. You turn the knob on your shower handle, and nothing. You can’t make coffee. You can’t make your morning oatmeal.

Instead you have to walk a few miles, fill an old diesel container with water from a running stream and carry the 40lbs. jug back to your house.

All of this effort to get water - water that has the possibility of infecting you and your family with dysentery, diarrhea and other diseases.

Amazingly, this is close to the reality for the 800 million people living with no access to clean water - which of course means more dehydration, but also widespread disease and poor sanitation.

charity: water’s mission is to bring clean, safe drinking water to those who don’t have it available.

A few weeks ago, Scott Harrison, the founder of charity: water came to speak where I work. As he spoke, I was blown away by the miserable conditions that many people are living in, but even more amazed at how simple and inexpensive the solution is.

Their projects have given over 3 million people access to clean water and for my birthday and my goal of raising $250, we can give an additional 12 people this gift.

Don’t get me a gift card or cash or buy me a drink - just give whatever you can to this amazing organization.

Every penny of the money raised will directly fund clean water projects in developing countries. Not to administrative overhead - 100% will go directly to funding a clean water project.

If you give just $20, this can give 1 person access to clean drinking water, but any amount helps.

Even better, charity: water will show us exactly which projects we funded once they've been fully completed (which takes about 18 months). That means we'll know the locations and names of the communities we helped.

Help me reach my goal. Please donate to my birthday campaign!