I've been reading all the holiday messages of thanks and feeling very moved by how fortunate I am to have a computer to communicate with family and friends near and far, to have my health and to have so much more than the bare necessities.

When you think about it, you realize how fortunate we are to be part of social networking communities like Twitter. People are sick. Starving. Poor. Destitute. Every day I read or hear about it in the news. There are so many people that need help. There are so many needs, so many good causes.

I've had it pretty good in life. And I've had a pretty incredible year. I've been able to travel across the world and do what I love. I don't want to sit by and just do nothing, so I picked one cause I think everyone can agree on. I'm working to give people something they absolutely cannot do without - the most basic of health needs.

I'm working to give people clean drinking water.

More than a billion people don't have access to safe drinking water. I don't mean that their pipes don't work; I mean that they have to walk hours each day to collect dirty water from stagnant ponds and muddy rivers. And the crazy thing is that for so many people, like for us here, clean water runs in lakes under their homes and village. But they don't have the drilling equipment or the money to reach it.

Just $5,000 builds a well to serve a community of 250 people. My goal is to raise that amount by December 27th.

Seems like a lot in a month but I figure if I just ask 250 friends to give $20 or the friends who follow me on Twitter to donate $8 or my Facebook friends to donate $10, it could literally happen in minutes.

There's a lot of need in the world. I'm starting here. Will you join me?