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This creative spirit lies at the heart of our partnership with charity: water. By donating to Shutterstock's campaign to bring clean water to 12 villages in Africa in 2010, you are helping to bring a very important idea to life -- the idea that everyone has the right to safe, clean water.

Remember, your donation is not just a drop in the bucket; $20 can give one person in a developing nation clean water for 20 years.

Throughout the year, we will update this page with photos and news from communities where wells have been built, and lives have been changed. We welcome you to join Shutterstock and charity: water to help the people who need it most; and we hope that you'll check back in to see the difference that we've made together.