I am thankful to my friends and family for making my birthday and Christmas a special time of the year for me! I have been blessed with your friendships and the love that has been shown to me from each of you.

I'm turning 31 years old. While I've always appreciated your expressions of love in the form of gift giving, this year instead of receiving gifts, I'm asking for $31 or more from everyone I know. It's not going to me, though. All of it is going to build freshwater wells for people in developing nations.

A billion people in the world are living without clean water - but how much are they really living? Millions contract deadly diseases from contaminated water. 45,000 people will die this week alone. The lucky ones won't, but still walk hours each day to get dirty water to give to their families.

My birthday and Christmas wish this year is to give clean and safe drinking water to some of the billion living without it.
Please join me.~Many thanks~ Heidi ~

please note: Because of charity: water's unique model, 100% of all donations go directly to direct water projects costs, and each donation is "proved" and tracked to the village it helped when projects are complete.