Happy September!

September is one of my favorite months of the year because it is my BIRTHDAY MONTH! That means getting to spend extra special time with family and friends, enjoying good company and good food. Of course it also usually involves gifts! And who doesn’t love receiving birthday presents?

Believe me, I LOVE getting gifts just as much as everyone else, but this year I am doing something different. Instead of gifts, I am asking my friends and family to donate my age: 47 (or any amount) in dollars to Charity: water, to give clean water to people who desperately need it.

It's hard to believe because it is totally CRAZY, but 663 million people on this planet don’t have access to clean water. That’s 1 in 11 of us!

That means 1 out of 11 people in our world is drinking water that comes from a river, lake or muddy hole in the ground every day. Dirty, contaminated water that has leeches and debris in it. Water that causes disease, keeps kids out of school and takes hours to bring back home.

What’s NOT crazy is doing something to help. My birthday is a perfect opportunity to start a Clean Water Campaign. I believe that every person on the planet deserves clean water, and helping coordinating an effort to bring it to those who need it is the best possible gift!!

100% of the money will be used to build clean water projects for people in need, and when they’re complete, charity: water will send us photos and GPS coordinates so we can see the exact community we helped.

You can give a little or you can give a lot. The craziest thing we can do is nothing.

Thank you SO much for Helping Me to Help Others. It means a great deal.

xoxo,
Nadine