I'm giving my birthday up....

I'm turning the mature age of 23 and instead of asking for gifts, I'm asking for $23, or $230, or $2300 or even more from everyone I know, to help bring clean drinking water to those in need.

Almost 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. 30,000 people will die this week alone. The lucky ones won't, but still have to walk hours each day to get dirty water for their families.

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 people living without it. I want to make my birthday matter this year.

The best part: 100% of all donations go directly toward water projects. And about 18 months after this campaign ends, charity: water will show us where and how every dollar we raised ended up helping in the field. We'll see GPS coordinates, photos and more details about the communities we've impacted.

Please join me in celebrating my birthday and bringing safe drinking water to those in need, to insure that they too will be able to celebrate 23rd birthdays!

Thank you!
S