This year please help my celebrate my birthday by donating to charity: water. In lieu of gifts, I'm asking that you donate any amount. My overall goal which I hope to reach by my birthday (June 26) is $500, which will give 16 people access to clean drinking water.

I have everything I could possibly need/want, while a staggering amount of people live in our world without the most basic need: clean drinking water.

I've heard about this charity a couple times and they come very highly recommended. They are rated the highest possible ratings on all the different charity watchdog sites:
- https://www.charitywatch.org/ratings-and-metrics/charity-water/400
- https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=12548
- https://www.guidestar.org/profile/22-3936753

Many of us have no idea what it's like to be thirsty. We have plenty of water to drink -- even the water in our toilets is clean!

But many people around the world don’t have that luxury. 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.

I started this fundraising campaign to help charity: water build these types of projects around the world, and I'm looking for anyone who can help me.

Please donate to my 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.

You can also give the gift of sharing this campaign with anyone you know!

Thank you so much!