A Lot To Do About Water

Posted by TeamCharlie on December 23, 2008 under Kids are Heroes | Be the First to Comment

I just recently posted about what my Twitter friend Laura is doing to try and help solve clean water issues around the world.  That was interesting to me because two of our heroes from Kids Are Heroes are working on the same problem – one of them, Ryan Hreljac, has been doing it for ten years since he was 7 years old!  (See www.ryanswell.ca)  According to Ryan, there are 1 billion people in this world without clean water.  But the solution is quite simple and that is to build wells.  This morning I got an email from Richard Branson.  Ok I admit it wasn’t directly from him, it was from his Virgin Unite initiative which is a company he formed to get people all over the world involved in solving our world’s problems.  Apparently he sees this issue as a serious one as well.  He is offering to donate $1. to Jewel’s Project Clean Water if you simply upload a photo of thanks to their web site.  Their cap is 5000, but let’s just make sure they hit this mark.  (Here is the link.) 

So that makes three charities to which I have been recently introduced all working for the common cause – to bring clean water to people all over the world.  We sure do take this for granted in our households.   I would love to see other kids from our web site get involved in this initiative so that we too can join the fray and make a bigger impact.  To see more inspiring stories about this issue, check out these videos: http://www.citytv.com/edmonton/yourcity_64597.aspx  and this one:

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