Paulman pointed me to a great effort called Charity: Water, an initiative started by a photographer.
You can buy a bottle of water for $20 and 100% of that money (minus Paypal fees) goes to water wells in various countries in Africa as well as in India and Bangladesh. I really like this initiative, check out the website, quite informative.
A neat touch to this project is that they’ll actually mail your bottled water to anybody (address in US or Canada) with a personal message attached. Though, it’s an extra $6 for shipping. But still, a good way to spread the word. Of course, you don’t have to buy a physical bottle if you don’t want.
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Cool! I’m going to copy Ben Harrison’s comment on my blog post and say:
“Another fantastic organization is Blood:Water Mission, founded by Jars of Clay. They are working towards drilling 1000 wells in Africa over the next few years.”
http://www.bloodwatermission.com/
P.S. Johnson’s asking me why I’m copying Ben’s comment from my blog. And I just kindly explained to him that my blog title, itself, is “Rip-Off Wisdom”… (so what does he expect?)
P.P.S To which Johnson replies, “…so, you rip off everything.”
Omgoodness, I got the name of my own blog wrong, lol
yep! i’m a big fan of Blood:WaterMission, i’ve had them linked to the right.