If you’re looking for a worthy cause to support, let me recommend Charity:Water. Their mission is to bring clean and safe drinking water to the 1 billion people on our planet that do not have access to it (that’s 1 in 6 of us).
A $20 monthly gift can provide one person with clean, safe drinking water for 20 years, and each $100 monthly gift can give a family of 5 clean water for 20 years.
You can even sponsor a well — $5,000 can build a freshwater well in a village and provide 250+ people with clean drinking water.
I was lucky to be born in a place where I have virtually unlimited access to clean, safe drinking water. Let’s help those who weren’t so lucky.
Wow. That seems like a bargain when you think about it, doesn’t it. Sort of like Heifer International only with water instead of livestock. By that I mean, it’s something pretty tangible that your money helps provide.
How many people spend more than $20 per month on bottled water alone?
As a civil engineer who has in the past worked on water related projects, you won’t believe all the nasty diseases and stuff you get from drinking poor quality water.
Clean water is a major problem in the 3rd world and emerging economies and many times common sense can go a a long way to help alleviate unclean water. For example, don’t dump refuse and human waster near your water supply is common sense but often isn’t followed well if you have 1000′s of people living together.
I wouldn’t have thought about this much until I spent like 4 hours last week reading about Typhoid.
Yea clean water = ++
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Now just think what you could do with an amount like this.
Sometimes, being alive just makes me sick. Living in a “first world country” (I loathe that expression, like if people in some parts of the world are worth a third of me at best) makes me suicidal at times…
Finally, a post about a cause we can both support.
I wonder what the world would be like if we all stoped arguing about the consistency / orgines / foundation of morality long enough to acctually be charitable.
Spending time arguing about consistency/origins/morality is not the only thing stopping people from spending time being charitable.