Esme is richly blessed with your love and friendship. In lieu of birthday gifts, we kindly ask you consider donating to Charity Water. Last year, her birthday gifts changed the lives of 24 people with clean water for life. One day when Esme can understand, we hope to show her how all of her birthday gifts added up to helping hundreds, if not, thousands of people.

Here is the project from Esme's 2nd birthday: The funds raised went toward building wells and clean water systems in Mali (https://www.charitywater.org/our-projects/africa/mali).

Many people around the world don’t have the luxury of clean water. Every day, about 1,400 children die from diseases caused by unsafe water and poor sanitation. But it doesn’t have to be that way. There are simple solutions like drilled wells, spring protections and BioSand filters that help provide clean water to communities around the world.

Please donate to this campaign -- anything you can give is a huge help.

100% of the money will be used to build clean water projects, and when they’re complete, charity: water will send us photos and GPS coordinates so we can see the exact community we helped.