Mary Rives yesterday was my birthday, 9/11, and it felt so good to be raising money for rwanda on such a day

Mary Rives donated $53 to Mary Rives's Water for Rwanda campaign.

Aley Martin donated $25 to Mary Rives's Mary's 9/11 Birthday: Clean Water to Save Lives! campaign.

Imre Kepes donated $90 to Mary Rives's Mary's 9/11 Birthday: Clean Water to Save Lives! campaign.

Deborah Yemm donated $25 to Mary Rives's Mary's 9/11 Birthday: Clean Water to Save Lives! campaign.

Mary Rives i am almost half way to my goal! woo hoo!

Mark Sherry donated $25 to Mary Rives's Mary's 9/11 Birthday: Clean Water to Save Lives! campaign.

lorenna shalev donated $33 to Mary Rives's Mary's 9/11 Birthday: Clean Water to Save Lives! campaign.

Mary Rives donated $52 to Mary Rives's Mary's 9/11 Birthday: Clean Water to Save Lives! campaign.

Mary Rives i want to do this again this year. i did another charIty last year!

charity: water

This is Caroline. Beautiful smile, right? She's smiling because she's drinking clean water for the first time. She used to walk three hours every day to fetch dirty water. But not anymore. Her village just got a well. Clean water will change everything for Caroline and her community. For every Caroline, there are millions more children hoping to smile like that. Almost a billion people on the planet don't have clean water right now. Who knows how many people you will impact. This is where it begins. Start a campaign, create a group, invite your friends. Give up your birthday, climb a mountain and run a marathon. And smile. Because what you do here changes lives.

-mycharity: water team.