What an amazing week! My daughter graduated from high school, I am celebrating a brand new year and I wore the same shirt twice in one week and no one cared.
Instead of focusing on Project 333 or minimalist fashion this week, I want to talk about water. You know that clear, clean, refreshing drink you can’t imagine going days or even hours without.
One in nine people in our world doesn’t have access to water: the most basic of human needs.
I am giving my birthday away and trading gifts and cake for donations to charity: water. What’s really cool is that 100% of the money we raise will directly fund water project costs in the field, and charity: water will prove every single dollar. When the project we help fund is complete, they’ll send us a digital completion report with GPS coordinates and photos of the community we helped and I’ll publish that report so you can see the difference you made, the difference we made together.
Make a difference and …
- make a donation. Visit the Be More with Less charity: water page.
- share this everywhere: Enough stuff! All @bemorewithless wants for her birthday is clean water for 800 million people in need. Donate here: http://mycharitywater.org/be-more-with-less
You can donate $4.00, $44.00, $440 or any amount you choose. I know that you work hard for your money and that you likely donate to other organizations, so please, give what you can. When I was trying to decide on a goal for this project, I thought it would be really awesome to give clean water to 44 people for my 44th birthday. It costs about $65 to give clean water to one person, so the original goal was $2860. But then I remembered who you are and who we are as a community and raised the bar. Our goal is $4400 and we’ve already raised more than $3400 in just a few weeks.
I started the donations with $144.00 We have 60 days to meet our goal, but if we can reach it by June 5th (my birthday), I’ll donate an additional $144.00, give away my books for free for 24 hours, and have some other surprises for you.
Go to my campaign to donate: http://mycharitywater.org/be-more-with-less.
I can’t think of a better way to celebrate my birthday than by giving the gift of clean water to people in need. Oh and before you bookmark this page and promise to come back later and make a donation, think about how many times you save something for later and never do it. Instead of putting clean water on your to do list, please take action right now.
I am so grateful for you.
That’s a great idea. I turned 36 in january and did the same thing on charity:water. But, after sharing campaign through out 30 days in social networks it ended with just one donation! Too sad people can’t think collectively.
Donated! Happy Birthday, Courtney!
Just donated. Thanks for a great website. I have just started doing Project333 as of last weekend, and minimizing excess has become addictive. Happy birthday.
Thank you. Excellent post on a topic that is also important to me – water. Minimizing my clothing has also allowed me to see excess consumption in other parts of my life as well, and to make changes. The shift in my thinking has brought me back to caring deeply about sustainability and interconnectedness,
I’d like to share another story with you…. “The Cherokee Word for Water” When no one else believed in them, they believed in each other – the story begins in a small town in rural Oklahoma where many houses lack running water. The film tells the story of a tribal community joining together to build a waterline by using traditional Native values of reciprocity and interdependence o battle opposition and build a 16-mile waterline system using a community of volunteers.