Hey everyone.

I'm turning 25 years old in March. This year, I'm giving my birthday up.

Instead of asking for gifts, I'm asking everyone I know to donate to charity: water. All of the money is going to build freshwater projects for people in developing countries.

Almost a billion people in the world are living without clean water. Millions contract deadly diseases from contaminated water. 30,000 people will die this week alone. The lucky ones won't, but still have to walk hours each day to get dirty water for their families.

You and me? We walk to a sink, turn on a faucet and have no worries.

My birthday wish this year is not for gifts; it's to give clean and safe drinking water to some of the billion people living without it. I want to make my birthday matter this year.

The best part: 100% of all donations go directly toward water projects. And about 18 months after this campaign ends, charity: water will show us where and how every dollar we raised ended up helping in the field. We'll see GPS coordinates, photos and more details about the communities we've impacted.

Please join me.