I've always enjoyed sports and the team spirit that unifies players to achieve a goal greater than anyone can do alone. This is an opportunity to engage in a cause greater than sports.

In the next three months, I'm going to use sports to promote and invite people to consider the joy of giving a future and a hope to a needy people. I commit to run over a mile 5 days a week as a reminder of the everyday labor and struggle people wake up to every day in search of water. Through sports and social events, I will also engage others to make a life-giving donation.

It's going to require training, determination, endurance, strength and a whole lot of moral support. Honestly, I'm not sure I can handle it.

But when I think of the millions of women and children who have to walk miles each day to retrieve water for their families, I think of how most of that hard-earned water isn't even clean and can infect people with deadly diseases. I think about how 45,000 people die each day from waterborne illnesses.

This is what fuels my passion. Millions of people suffering and dying because they don't have clean water. I must do something. But I need your help.

My goal is to raise $4000 for water projects. Because of charity: water's unique model, 100% of all donations go directly to water projects, and each donation is "proved" using Google Earth when projects are complete. You can pledge per mile, you can give a lump sum when I complete my goals or you can just donate whatever and whenever you want in the next three months.

I've never done this before. And I promise to do it without complaining. After all, I'll have fresh water to keep me going. That's more than millions around the world can ask for.

Please join me in helping them.