I have been privileged. Too privileged, I would say, to have such loving family and friends who have constantly made my birthdays all about making my birthday wishes come true.
My birthday wish this year is not for more gifts I don't need; it's to give clean and safe drinking water to some of the billion living without it. I want to make my birthday count.

So this year, I'm giving my birthday up.

My birthday is on October 10th. That?s right - this year makes it 10/10/10.
So as a part of my PERFECT 10 birthday, instead of asking for gifts, I'm asking for $5 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.

Please join me.

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.