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inspired by the o ambassadors, girlawhirl wonders if she can help build a well Jun 17, 2008
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To be sure there was plenty of joy and fierce pride to be seen in the Enelerai community before it got a new school building and a new well. But what Girlawhirl wanted most was to see the faces of the girls, who had previously trekked 5 to 10 kilometers (and back!) to that old watering hole, after they were able to access clean, clear water from their new well. The show was just the kick that Girlawhirl needed to get herself and her Super Pals involved in their own fresh water project.
The cost of digging a well in a developing country is about 5,000 US dollars. That's a lot of money to Girlawhirl and her friends, but to the 1.1 billion people who live without access to clean water, it may as well be a million dollars. charity: water works along with local partners to dig wells, providing clean water to communities in some of the poorest parts of the world, and Girlawhirl wants to help.
Can girlawhirl.com readers finance a well? A donation of just $20 can provide one person clean water for 20 years, but every penny makes a difference. By combining girlawhirl.com reader donations, Girlawhirl believes they can build a well – so much so that she's putting some extra money where her heart is. Here's how the charity: water challenge works:
Click here to donate directly to charity: water for Girlawhirl's well. The link is coded, so be sure to use it, or any of the banners on the girlawhirl.com site, to make sure that your donation goes to Girlawhirl's well. Donations are made via pay pal so it's all safe and secure, and 100% of the donation goes directly towards water projects. charity: water has partners that finance their overhead, so whatever's donated is truly going towards bringing clean water to those in need.
Girlawhirl will add a dollar to every donation if you sign up to be a registered user at girlawhirl.com. For every new registered user through July 4th, girlawhirl.com will donate $1 to charity: water, up to an additional $2000.
Already a registered user? Forward this to your friends, if they register, an extra $1 goes to charity: water.
For more information on O Ambassadors click here.
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Sure she donates to what she thinks are worthy causes, but after watching a recent Oprah! Show featuring the O Ambassadors™, a program run by Oprah's Angel Network in conjunction with Free The Children, Girlawhirl's feeling a bit – well, shamed. Just a handful of O Ambassadors – a group of high school kids – raised enough money to purchase materials to build and furnish a school in Kenya. Then, they went there themselves and built the school in three weeks. And after they saw that their new friends got their water from a not-so-clean looking river, the kids did even more fundraising when they got home so they could build a well to provide clean water for the town they had just visited…
