My blog has been possessed by evil malware since June, and it is now healed! (Thanks Matt Townsend; remind me to give you that poem later). I have several things I have been sitting on during that time, but first I wanted to actually tell you about something important.
During the 30 days of September, 29 other bloggers and I have joined together to see if our different communities could collectively raise $30,000 for charity: water, to provide clean water for people who don’t have it. 30 Bloggers, 30 Days, $30,000. Pretend like I posted this 5 days ago, cuz it’s actually more like 30, 30, 25, which has a horrible ring to it.
Check out this amazing video from the founder of charitywater.org . It is an amazing organization, and a little goes a long way.
The story of charity: water – The 2009 September Campaign Trailer from charity: water on Vimeo.
Here’s what you can do:
+ Give. $20 gives one person clean water for 20 years!
+ Share. Tell your friends on Facebook and Twitter about what we’re doing. We’re using the hashtag #30water and pointing people to http://mycharitywater.org/30 (shortlink: http://bit.ly/b1eht9)
+ Blog about it. I know a bunch of you also have your own blogs. We want you to write about it too and get your readers involved. Just point your readers to our site: http://mycharitywater.org/30
Of all the things I love about charity: water, here are some of the details that really stuck out to me:
+ 100% of all your money will go to water projects. Not just profits, 100%.
+ Our money will go towards building water projects in Central African Republic. Again, here’s their homepage detailing their September project.
+ After you give, charity: water will keep you up-to-date with the status of the project you gave to, provide you with GPS coordinates of exactly where the well is being built, and take pictures and video along the way.
+ Our page has a status bar at the top that shows up-to-the-minute progress of how much money has been given.
+ Like I said earlier, $20 provides one person with clean water for 20 years. An average water project costs $5,000 to build and provides clean water to 250 people. If we raise our goal of $30,000, we’ll help 1500 people get clean water!
So please check it out and give… It’s a few bucks to save a lot of people’s lives.
And check back here in the next weeks for the stuff I’ve been chewing on the last 2 months.
