charity: water – update

Fact: Just $20 can give one person in a developing nation clean water for 20 years.

First of all, thanks to 7 of you who have committed and contributed to the campaign; I hope we can achieve the target set, and make a difference into the lives of others and their communities!

I have spent the last few days organizing my campaign [found here], and working on ideas to make a presence felt across a number of social networks. I would like to highlight the contributions of @Zoobery, @MaliZOMG, @Lhjunkie, @MariamUAE and advice and shared experience from the wonderful @Masarat over the last 4 days.

For all those of you who have no idea what I am talking about – check out my last post [here]. I have initiated a charity: water campaign to raise $1,000 towards providing access to clean drinking water for communities around the world. I would like as many of you as possible to join in, raise awareness and contribute whatever you can towards this cause. I am also trying to find avenues to highlight charity: water and their work in media outside USA; if you can help with this, then do drop me a line!

To contribute, please visit my campaign page, click on “Donate to my campaign”, and give what you can. You can contribute by credit and debit cards at the moment, however – Paypal payments are coming soon too! Leave me a comment if you would like to be kept updated on the status of payment by Paypal, and I will let you know as soon as I do! Because of charity: water’s unique model, 100% of all donations go directly to direct water projects costs, and each donation is “proved” and tracked to the village it helped when projects are complete.

Also, please do checkout our Facebook fan page, which was setup by @Zooberry.

The most difficult part of the campaign is raising awareness on what charity: water do. Once people know about this, they step up and play their part. I thought I should share one of the projects which has been carried out by charity: water. I hope you guys can help spread the word to a simple concept, for an amazing cause!

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