The Sahel region is one of the harshest places on earth to live. We can change that!

Update:

Hello & thank you for joining me in this crucial cause. As some may know, I was working on the Tips for Taps campaign throughout September, and I am humbled to report I exceeded my goal of $400 - meaning 12 people will get clean water! What an amazing gift to give to another human being. If you would still like to donate to my campaign, you can! This page will be live through December 30.

Tips for Taps:
Throughout the month of September, I'll be keeping close track of my tips at Sparks Cafe in Denver. Each Sunday, I will donate 100% of these tips to charity: water. Here is what I ask of you, my friends: Read a little bit about the Sahel region that this campaign is set in place for. If this affects you as much as it did me, please donate what you can... it doesn't need to be a lot. Any participation of yours in this campaign goes a long way (and it's being doubled by a generous donor!) The goal is $400, but I'm hoping to exceed that. Much love and thank you in advance!

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 me play a small part in changing the lives of women in the Sahel -- donate to my 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.