For women in the Sahel, the first step out of poverty begins with clean water. We can help!

For every $200 raised, I will perform one karaoke song, and I will travel to perform these songs in whichever city contributes to most money. So, hypothetically, if this campaign receives the most money from Ubud, Bali, (or Syndey, or Haifa, or SF, or NYC, or Oakland, or ... etc.) I will make my way there in the next 18 months to karaoke! (*gulp*)

Aside from the small price at which I've valued my public embarrassment, please contribute this campaign to help women and girls end their back-breaking burden collecting water. Send girls to school. Give mothers the time start small businesses to support their families.

This year's campaign supports Sahel.

For women in Sahel, not having access to clean water means hours of painful and exhausting work. Many of them walk miles each day just to reach the 100-year-old hole in the ground where they collect water. And they make that trip four or five times. Not only is that water contaminated and dirt-colored, but it has to be pulled up by hand, one bucket at a time.

The homemade rope burns their hands; it causes bleeding and leaves callouses — even scars. And sometimes the rope breaks, causing women to fall into the wells.

But we can change all of that!

We can bring solar powered pumps into communities and pipe water to tap stands right next to these women’s homes. We can bring time, energy and a better future to 100,000 people in Mali and Niger.

Help me play a small part in changing the lives of women in the Sahel -- donate to my campaign.

100% of everything we raise will directly fund water projects. And when those projects are finished, charity: water will send us proof in pictures and GPS coordinates, so we can see the actual people and communities we impacted.