$20 Water

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.

Blog Compassion: Uganda 2008

15 influential bloggers, several who get a lot of traffic onto their blogs everyday (hundreds daily, some thousands daily!) decide to use their influence to change lives forever. They’re from all across America, some of them have never even met each other face to face. But these guys and gals decide to get together and go on a trip to Uganda. Why? They’re all lovers and supporters of Compassion International. Their commitment? They’re doing several things while they are there with Compassion. But one is to avidly blog about their trip with stories, pictures, videos and experiences so that more children from Uganda will be sponsored through Compassion.

Awesome idea. These guys are taking time off of their everyday lives, they’re jobs, away from their kids and families so that more lives will be saved. Good stuff. Read some blogs, see their pictures, sponsor a child (Canadian site). I love what Compassion does, they literally save kids’ lives all over the world as we partner with them. Check out the details of this Blog Project with Compassion.

There’s a great widget that Shaun Groves made which lists all 15 blog links, pictures, videos, etc but WordPress can’t read its code. But i put the widget on my Facebook page so you can go there or go to his post about it and click on one of the “Blogs. Read. Watch. See. Give” tabs.

And this banner is just one of the bloggers. Ragamuffinsoul, aka Carlos Whittaker.