"Be the change you wish to see in the world" Ghandi

Family, friends, and beautiful people that I love,
This year marks the 5th year (WOAH!) that I've shared my birthday with charity: water in order to help bring clean water to people around the world. I'm honored to take part in such a beautiful organization that aims to give our neighbors around the globe life's most basic necessity.

Each year charity: water puts together a special September campaign which is aimed at bringing clean drinking water to a specific region.

This September that is the Sahel region of West Africa where during the hotter part of the year, the average temperature is more than 110 degrees!

For women here, not having access to clean water means hours of painful and exhausting work. Many of them walk miles multiple times each day just to reach the 100-year-old hole in the ground where they collect water. Not only is that water contaminated and dirt-colored, but it has to be pulled up by hand, one bucket at a time. As can be imagined, pulling up buckets of water by a rope causes bleeding and calloused hands. It also puts women and young girls at risk of falling into the wells.

But we can change all of that!

We can help charity:water 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 --- Not so sure about it all...check out my previous campaigns to get a glimpse of the amazing work this organization is dedicated to.

Every dollar makes a difference. Give what you can and help be the change you wish to see in the world.

Peace and love, Philina